After upgrading two machines to the recently stable openal-1.9.563, a gentoo-x86 machine with ALSA works. However, the gentoo-amd64 with OSS (that's OSS4--haven't tried the kernel version yet) has no sound output from openal apps. The previous stable version (1.8.466) worked fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE="-alsa openal oss" 2. emerge mplayer 3. mplayer -ao openal somesound.ogg 4. observe the deafening silence I haven't looked into any possible causes yet, but for now the workaround is just to mask the new version.
I just notified upstream and it was a bug he was able to find and fix on the spot. So, this is fixed in the upstream repository. Will you accept a patch into portage so this doesn't have to be broken until the next release? Something like this should work: sed -i -e "s/\!pDevice->Connected/pDevice->Connected/" Alc/oss.c
Created attachment 207448 [details, diff] the upstream fix in patch form
Created attachment 207536 [details] oss bugs fixed upstream As long as you're going to patch openal-1.9.563 in portage (and I think you should since OSS playback is basically broken, here's a patch that includes another fix for a long-standing OSS bug which was made more severe in 1.9.563 (terminating playback) which was also fixed upstream just a few minutes ago.
+*openal-1.9.563-r1 (27 Oct 2009) + + 27 Oct 2009; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> + +openal-1.9.563-r1.ebuild, +files/openal-1.9.563-oss.patch: + Upstream patch for OSS backend wrt #289542, thanks to Chaz McGarvey for + reporting. And sorry for the delay.
