openal-0.0.8 contains a bug when short sample is played. See http://opensource.creative.com/pipermail/openal-devel/2006-August/004553.html message in openal mailing list for details and patches. The bug affects games-strategy/warzone2100.
*** Bug 145237 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This also causes crash in games-sports/torcs. Please fix it ASAP.
Feel free to attach a patch to expedite this.
Created attachment 98019 [details, diff] openal-0.0.8-mmx.patch
OK. Patch applied to 0.0.8-r1... thanks, Tristan!