[Openal] OpenAL 1.1 alcOpenDevice() fails with Dell M90, WinXP, SigmaTel audio

[Garin Hiebert]

> I'll try a few OpenAL sample programs and perhaps a few DirectSound3D
> samples, if I can find any (any pointers? :). 
>   
If you don't have the OpenAL SDK off of developer.creative.com, then 
grab that -- it has precompiled OpenAL sample programs, source code, and 
an OpenAL Installer in it.  If that system somehow has a messed-up 
OpenAL install, maybe your app is finding openal32.dll, but can't find 
any actual implementation to run on (all the actual rendering for your 
setup will be done in wrap_oal.dll, which should also be in your system 
directory).

Feel free to email the list with any output from the SDK's test programs 
-- there may be hints to be found there...
> But do you think it would be worthwhile to try to isolate further where
> inside OpenAL the initialization it fails?
>   
Absolutely.  If OpenAL is being installed correctly and no other 
solution becomes obvious, it would be incredibly useful to grab the 
OpenAL implementation out of Subversion (instructions on openal.org's 
download page) and debug into alcOpenDevice to see what is really going 
on for that particular system...

Garin