[Openal] alcOpenDevice not working in Ubuntu

[Jason Daly]

lakers fan wrote:
> Hello,
>       I have installed openal in ubuntu, but when I ran the code, 
> alcOpenDevice returns NULL. There is no error code
> returned alGetError() (returned 0). I debugged into alcOpenDevice and 
> I find _alParseConfig() failing with Couldnt parse config file. Then 
> rc_lookup( "devices" ); also returned null.
>
> Can someone let me know what i m doing wrong. I m using GNU GCC in ubuntu.

It sounds like you're using the old sample implementation, which is now 
deprecated.  We're recommending all Linux users to switch to the 
OpenAL-Soft implementation instead. 

You can get it from http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html

or you can get it from svn at:

svn://connect.creativelabs.com/OpenAL

(use the OpenAL-Soft subdirectory).

--"J"

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