[Openal] Not able to detect sound cards

[Garin Hiebert]

> so my question here is, what i am doing wrong ?
>   

Good news -- you're not doing anything wrong.  The OpenAL device names 
you're seeing represent OpenAL renderers. 

In your first scenario, you have three renderers available: the X-Fi 
(through a native library), "Generic Hardware" (through the "wrapper" 
library), and "Generic Software" (through the "wrapper" library).  The 
Generic Hardware device uses DirectSound 3D and the Generic Software 
device uses DirectSound (or MMSYSTEM if DS isn't available).  In your 
second test scenario, you're only getting Generic Hardware and Generic 
Software because there are no native OpenAL devices in that system.

The audio output device which will be used by Generic Hardware and 
Generic Software will be whatever is selected as the preferred audio 
output device on Windows' "Sounds and Audio Devices" control panel (the 
preferred audio input device will be used if you do any capture).

Garin