[Openal] multichannel help

[Jason Daly]

Damian Corrin wrote:
> Im sorry to have to ask so many questions which have probably alrady 
> been asked but there appears no way to search the message archives 
> other than manually which is crazy. I have a ac97 audio controller 
> which has multichannel however the multichannel does not show up on 
> openal-info in the contrib/examples folder. Does the multichannel 
> ability only work on creative hardware of is there something i have to 
> setup on my linux machine
> love and peace

The best the Sample Implementation can do is 4-channel sound.  Try 
putting this in your .openalrc:

(define devices '(alsa))
(define speaker-num 4)
(define alsa-out-device "surround40")

Hope this helps,

-- 

--"J"

"I'm a castaway stranded in a desolate land,
 I can see the footprints in the virtual sand."
	--Neil Peart

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