[linux-audio-user] MPlayer and ALSA difficulties

I currently installed (from source) the current version of MPlayer. I am experiencing difficulty playing video files if I use the MPlayer ALSA drivers (the OSS MPlayer drivers work fine). I get this: ALSA lib control.c:654:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL /dev/mixer99% alsa-control: mixer attach /dev/mixer error: No such file or directory alsa-space: xrun of at least 451.185 msecs. resetting stream ALSA lib control.c:654:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL /dev/mixer99% alsa-control: mixer attach /dev/mixer error: No such file or directory ALSA lib control.c:654:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL /dev/mixer99% alsa-control: mixer attach /dev/mixer error: No such file or directory . . . Until I ctrl-c the app. This has only been happening for about a day or so (suspiciously after a power-loss shutdown). I reinstalled ALL of the ALSA RPMs from my distro disks (Red Hat - Fedora Core 2, Kernel-2.6.8) and rebuilt MPlayer from source as well but still no luck... Going by the above, I looked at my dev directory, and it looks fine, /dev/mixer exists as below: ls -l /dev/mixer crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 14, 0 Feb 23 2004 /dev/mixer I would prefer to use the ALSA drivers in MPlayer, and would appreciate help in getting this to work, thanks!