[Openal] Failed to Open Device in Linux

[Casey Borders]

This is the code I use to initialize OpenAL and it works fine on Windows,
but crashes every time in Linux when the call to alcOpenDevice() fails.  I
have even tried hard coding the NULL and that still fails.  It says "OGRE
EXCEPTION(40961:): Failed to open Device: OpenAL Error: The specified source
name is not valid in initializeDevice"

I am sure there is something that I am doing incorrectly for Linux, but for
the life of me I can't figure out what it is!  Here's the code:

    void SoundManager::initializeDevice(const Ogre::String& deviceName)
    {
        Ogre::LogManager::getSingleton().logMessage("OpenAL Devices");
        Ogre::LogManager::getSingleton().logMessage("--------------");

        std::stringstream ss;

        // List devices in log and see if the sugested device is in the list
        Ogre::StringVector deviceList = getDeviceList();
        bool deviceInList = false;
        Ogre::StringVector::iterator deviceItr;
        for(deviceItr = deviceList.begin(); deviceItr != deviceList.end() &&
(*deviceItr).compare("") != 0; deviceItr++)
        {
            deviceInList = (*deviceItr).compare(deviceName) == 0;
            ss << "  * " << (*deviceItr);
            Ogre::LogManager::getSingleton().logMessage(ss.str());
            ss.clear(); ss.str("");
        }

        // If the suggested device is in the list we use it, otherwise
select the default device
        mDevice = alcOpenDevice(deviceInList ? deviceName.c_str() : NULL);
        CheckError(alcGetError(mDevice), "Failed to open Device");
        CheckCondition(mDevice != NULL, 13, "Failed to open audio device");

        Ogre::LogManager::getSingleton().logMessage("Choosing: " +
Ogre::String(alcGetString(mDevice, ALC_DEVICE_SPECIFIER)));

        // Create OpenAL Context
        mContext = alcCreateContext(mDevice, NULL);
        CheckError(alcGetError(mDevice), "Failed to create Context");
        CheckCondition(mContext != NULL, 13, "Failed to create OpenAL
Context");

        alcMakeContextCurrent(mContext);
        CheckError(alcGetError(mDevice), "Failed to set current context");
    }
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