[Openal] Failed to Open Device in Linux

[Chris Robinson]

On Sunday 09 December 2007 08:10:26 pm Casey Borders wrote:
> Ok, here's what I am doing and I can't get my app to find the new version
> of OpenAL.  Please forgive these noobish issues, I am not that experienced
> with developing on Linux.
>
> $ svn co http://www.openal.org/repos/openal/branches/openal_linux openal

That's the very old code, before the move to OpenAL 1.1. Get this instead:

svn co http://opensource.creative.com/repos/openal/trunk openal
cd openal/OpenAL-Sample
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

Also make sure /usr/local/lib is in /etc/ld.so.conf and make sure you don't 
have the old lib in /usr/lib (if you installed it via your package manager, 
for example, uninstall it from there), before running ldconfig.