[Flightgear-devel] OpenAL/Alut problem

[Stephen Miller]

Hi: FG graphics/joystick work fine on my Linux FC4 system, but no sound. I've been working on this problem for weeks, with no success. My system uses ALSA, and am able to get the "ordinary" Linux event sounds to work OK (opening, closing windows etc). I can also put "test" sounds (.wav) files through the system OK.   1) OpenAL installed OK, but but not the alut portion. It says missing references in the hello_world.c file. Trying to follow the procedure in the README file, but no luck so far. Is alut required in order to provide sound in FlightGear? 2) So far, the only executable binary found under openal is "openal-configure". Is this correct? I would have expected something like "OpenAL" to start the application. 3) The docs say that I should have a ".openalrc" file, which requires an added statement, but all I can find is "sample.openalrc".  I've since created the file, with only one line, as stated in the FlightGear README.sound file. I've put this file in both my home dir and under /...FlightGear/data, no change. 4) I've studied and attempted to fix the problem, but my experience is limited: Used to Linux, but only know a little "C".    It would seem that I'm still missing something, don't know how to start OpenAL or still need alut. If I had some idea of where to look, I could at least investigate before "dumping" the numerous files required for a pro to analyze it.       Any help would be greatly appreciated.         Thanks,             Steve Miller