I have the openal use flag set for openarena and openal installed with the alsa use flag, but when I start openarena I get no sound and this error: ------ Initializing Sound ------ Loading "libopenal.so.0"... Failed to load library: "libopenal.so.0". SDL_Init( SDL_INIT_AUDIO )... OK SDL audio driver is "(UNKNOWN)". SDL_OpenAudio() failed: No available audio device Sound initialization failed. I have reinstalled openal, but the only files I have are: ls -l /usr/lib64/libopenal.so* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jun 1 18:41 /usr/lib64/libopenal.so -> libopenal.so.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 1 18:41 /usr/lib64/libopenal.so.1 -> libopenal.so.1.7.411 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 171968 Jun 1 18:41 /usr/lib64/libopenal.so.1.7.411 I must manually create a symlink (ln -s /usr/lib64/libopenal.so.1.7.411 /usr/lib64/libopenal.so.0), and then sound works fine. I'm not sure if the problem is openarena not looking for the correct symlink or openal not creating the correct symlinks.
For me openarena does not depend at libopenal.so* at all, so you probably have your error in SDL or somewhere else, which should be fixed via revdep-rebuild
(In reply to comment #1) > For me openarena does not depend at libopenal.so* at all, so you probably have > your error in SDL or somewhere else, which should be fixed via revdep-rebuild > Openarena can use either openal or sdl for sound with openal being the preferable option. I currently have built SDL without the alsa flag which is why you see the SDL error, but this shouldn't matter if openal was working since openal will be used instead. I found another fix to the problem without making the symlink is to simply set the in-game variable s_alDriver to be "libopenal.so.1" instead of "libopenal.so.0".
I changed the default to libopenal.so so there's more of a chance to work out of the box.
