Debian-specific notes about the openal-Package
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The openal library supports several ways of audio output like OSS or esd.
By default, only the platform's native audio output (OSS on Linux systems)
is tried.  To try OSS output first, and fall back to esd, you can add the
following line to your ~/.openalrc:

(define devices '(native esd))

When building applications with openal support, don't forget to explicitly
link with `sdl-config --libs`.  Otherwise, various X libs that SDL depends on
won't be pulled in even when linking dynamically.  For static builds, all
those libs need to be listed anyway.

2002-03-01	Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org>