[Openal-devel] EFX Echo effect on Linux

[Chris Robinson]

On Thursday 19 November 2009 9:12:32 am you wrote:
> Ok I had a closer look at this and it seems that it fails to open the
> default device, and
> alcGetString(NULL, ALC_DEFAULT_DEVICE_SPECIFIER) returns nothing.
> 
> Perhaps it has something to do with my system sound configuration, but
> I'm successfully using pulseaudio for music playback using Rhythmbox so
> I'm not sure what to do.
> I'd be happy to test some things if you have any suggestions.

What version of PulseAudio are you using, and are you sure support for it was 
enabled in OpenAL Soft? What does your ~/.alsoftrc look like? OpenAL Soft 
should say something if it fails to load the proper functions from libpulse.. 
the only way it won't say anything is if libpulse itself fails to load, or 
pulseaudio was disabled (at compile time or via .alsoftrc).