[Openal] Failed to Open Device in Linux

[Chris Robinson]

On Sunday 09 December 2007 03:42:55 am Casey Borders wrote:
> 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"

What version of OpenAL? The last release (0.0.8) doesn't support device 
enumeration, I don't think. The latest SVN version should work, but a better 
idea might be to try OpenAL Soft <http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html>.