OpenAL configuration

elvanor · Developer Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 178 Location: France

Hello there,

I am primarily posting this to get documentation or links. I've spent some time searching the net for documentation on the configuration of OpenAL (I am thinking specifically about the .openalrc file) and found almost nothing, there is for exemple absolutely nothing on the openal web site.

More specifically, I'd like to set up openalrc to use ALSA, and use the dmix plugin interface on ALSA so that I can play UT2003 AND also play mp3s (XMMS). Currently I can use ALSA but it monopolizes the soundcard, if the sound card is already used I get an error from openal saying it cant open /dev/dsp or something like that.

Also one thing I'd like to know is, for a certain app, how do you know if it's using native ALSA or OSS emulation through ALSA? Is everything not accessing PCMs (like hw:0,0) not ALSA native? I mean, everytime an app tries to open a DEVICE (/dev/something) and not to go through the PCM way, is it not OSS emulation?

Thanks

Elvanor

Gentoonie · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 1:20 pm Post subject:

Exactly what i wondered about today?

Still no solutions to it?
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elvanor · Developer Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 178 Location: France

no... still waiting for an answer...

jwj · Apprentice Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 240

Search the forum for a dmix setup and configure openal to use alsa output:

~/.openalrc