[Openal] PCM.rear missing

[Chris Robinson]

On Tuesday 03 November 2009 6:19:52 am Schneider, Thomas wrote:
> I recently switched from Debian Etch to Debian Lenny, and just
> recognized that some of the pcm-devices I was using earlier are missing
> in the new version.
> With Debian Etch I could use the "front" and "rear" Device independent,
> also from within OpenAL-soft. With debian etch the "rear" device is no
> more available..
> 
> Does anyone know the reason for this?

Hi.

How were you selecting the devices? OpenAL Soft should only enumerate the 
available hw:x,y devices, as well as the 'default' device, from ALSA. The 
"front" and "rear" plug devices shouldn't have been listed.

Semi-recent versions of OpenAL Soft changed it so the separate hardware 
devices will only be listed with the ALC_ENUMERATE_ALL_EXT extension, though 
the device-specific strings will still work as long as the app passes them 
through (use the openal-info utility to see what OpenAL Soft will recognize).