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

[Ville Herva]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:18:30PM -0700, you [Garin Hiebert] wrote:
> Is this machine able to play audio through the SigmaTel device with any 
> other application?  

Yes, normal audio works without any quirks.

> If so, then this is truly odd -- when you try to 
> open the NULL device, alcOpenDevice first tries DS3D, then DS, then 
> MMSYSTEM.  

I know. I tried them explicitly one by one just to be sure there's no weird
bug in e.g. DS3D initialization that would make trying to open MMSYSTEM fail
as well.

> For all three of those to fail on a Windows setup where 
> drivers are installed at all is pretty strange.

Yes.

Also, there no other sound devices in the Control Panel to be selected as
the "preferred" sound device. So the SigmaTel is really the only option.

I'll try a few OpenAL sample programs and perhaps a few DirectSound3D
samples, if I can find any (any pointers? :). 

But do you think it would be worthwhile to try to isolate further where
inside OpenAL the initialization it fails?



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