[Openal] problems with surround under Linux

[Tomasz Noiński]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Prakash Punnoor wrote:

> Am Freitag 10 November 2006 16:58 schrieb Tomasz Noiński:
>
> > BTW I tried to uninstall Ubuntu openal and alut and compiled them from
> > today's SVN.
> > No luck, results were exactly the same :(
>
> Well, in "our" implementation, nothing has been done in that field for ages,
> so I am not surprised. Have you tried using the Alsa 5.1 output while setting
> speaker numbers to 4 in OpenAL? Tomorrow I'll see whether I get some
> multichannel out of my mobo. I never tried it on this system...

I tried surround51 + 4 channels in openal -> no luck, the same result as
with surround51 + 6 channels (no sound at all).

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