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Hi All,

This makes a good read for us too.

Regards,

Hans
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Hello,

There is a new library for the OpenAL API which is called OpenAL Soft. This 
new library is OpenAL 1.1 compliant, and is considered the replacement for 
the deprecated OpenAL SI (openal-0.0.8). Below are some links with the 
discussions from upstream about this.
http://opensource.creative.com/pipermail/openal-devel/2007-December/004977.html
http://opensource.creative.com/pipermail/openal/2008-February/010981.html
http://opensource.creative.com/pipermail/openal/2008-March/011019.html
http://opensource.creative.com/pipermail/openal/2008-April/011073.html
http://opensource.creative.com/pipermail/openal-devel/2008-May/005176.html

I am writing to you all because I want your help in testing packages that 
build and/or run using the new library. The goal of the Debian Games Team is 
to include the OpenAL Soft library in unstable, in time for release with 
Lenny. I have already packaged openal-soft for inclusion in experimental. You 
can download them from mentors.debian.net.
- dget 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/o/openal-soft/openal-soft_1.3.253-1~experimental0.dsc

I have done some tests of my own. Almost every package I tested worked with 
the openal-soft packages without the need to make any changes. The packages 
that did need a change were funguloids and chromium. boson is the only 
package I know of that needs a fix (no sound with openal-soft) although none 
has been found so far.

The list of packages that I tested which build and ran fine with no changes 
are:
glest
supertuxkart
antigravitaattori (source: antigrav)
scorched3d
xpilot-ng-client-sdl (source: xpilot-ng)
xpilot-ng-client-x11 (source: xpilot-ng)
flightgear (and dependency simgear)
simgear
vegastrike (version in unstable)
warzone2100
trigger
openarena
btanks
supertux (version in experimental)
tremulous
torcs
mplayer
ogreal (only in Debian games team svn)
warsow

If you test the openal-soft packages, please leave any feedback at 
473128@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and/or debian-devel-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Regards,
Andres

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