[openal] streaming sounds clicking in 64 bit

[Jarryd Beck]

The only problem is that will uninstall all the things which depend on
openal, and if I try to install anything that needs openal it will
install openal. As I said, I need yum to think openal is still there.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Jason Daly <jdaly at ist.ucf.edu> wrote:
>
> Jarryd Beck wrote:
>  > I'm running fedora 7 64 bit, and when I play streamed sounds, I get
>  > this horrible clicking noise
>  > the whole time it is playing. I've also noticed it in another game
>  > which I think uses openal too. It doesn't
>  > happen on my 32 bit computer or on windows.
>  >
>  > Does anyone know if this is a problem with the 64 bit implementation
>  > and if maybe openal soft would
>  > fix it?
>  > How would I use openal soft with fedora? I'm not sure how I would go
>  > about replacing distribution files, yum
>  > needs to think openal is installed but I won't actually be using the
>  > one it supplied.
>  >
>
>  For now, I'd just recommend doing "yum remove openal" and just
>  downloading, compiling, and installing OpenAL-Soft manually.  After
>  following the "Installing" instructions on the web site, just do "make",
>  and then "make install" (make sure you're root for the "make install" step).
>
>  Eventually, I'm hoping to get OpenAL-Soft to replace the old SI in all
>  the distros, which should make this easier.
>
>
>  --"J"
>
>