No sound except via mplayer

[Philip Prindeville]

I've got an MSI 7142 (aka K8MM-V mobo) with SPDIF out and FC3
(I've installed alsa 1.0.9b drivers and 1.0.9rf2-2 libs and utils).  If 
I use
mplayer-1.0pre7 I get sound out via the speakers.

On the other hand, aplay, soundcard detection, grip, etc. don't generate
sound.

My .asoundrc looks like:

pcm.!default {
  type hw
  card 0
  device 1
  subdevice 0
}


since this is a VT8237 based system (with digital playback as hw:0,1).

I tried playing CD's with mplayer, but I get:

[root at media ~]# mplayer cdda://
MPlayer 1.0pre7-RPM-3.4.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 64 Clawhammer (Family: 8, Stepping: 10)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2



85 audio & 196 video codecs
Playing cdda://.
[file] No filename
Failed to open cdda://


Exiting... (End of file)
[root at media ~]#

(DVD's, on the other hand, play fine...)

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?

Thanks,

-Philip