On that subject, I tried to use aoss wrapper as a work around (still OpenAL / ALUT should use ALSA when possible not OSS)
It worked with chromium - sound was playing (despite error/warning messages) but it didn't worked with my simpe test program though. Chromium: -OpenAL----------------------------------------------------- Vendor : OpenAL Community Renderer : Software Version : 1.1 Extensions : ALC_EXT_capture AL_EXT_capture AL_EXT_vorbis AL_EXT_MP3 AL_LOKI_quadriphonic AL_LOKI_play_position AL_LOKI_WAVE_format AL_LOKI_IMA_ADPCM_format AL_LOKI_buffer_data_callback ALC_LOKI_audio_channel ------------------------------------------------------------ ATTENTION!! Could not load alAttenuationScale ERROR!! <> alGetError() = Invalid Value alAttenuationScale == 0. Kludge it. ...startup complete. [... native_blitbuffer: select error occured native_blitbuffer: select error occured native_blitbuffer: select error occured native_blitbuffer: select error occured [...] native_blitbuffer: select error occured native_blitbuffer: select error occured native_blitbuffer: select error occured native_blitbuffer: select error occured native_blitbuffer: select error occured native_blitbuffer: select error occured ii chromium 0.9.12-12 ii libalut-dev 1.0.1-1 ii libalut0 1.0.1-1 ii libopenal-dev 0.0.8-1 rc libopenal0 0.2005080600-2.1 ii libopenal0a 0.0.8-1 un libopenalpp-cvs <none> ii libopenalpp-cvs-dev 20060405-2 ii libopenalpp-cvs1 20060405-2 -- www.Raf256.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]