OpenAL problem?

[elsenator]

I had the same problem running the penumbra shell script on my gentoo system. Cd'ing /opt/penumbra and running the binary directly solved the problem (although there is impulse noise in the game, probably underruns or something like that, but that's a problem with other games too).

I don't quite understand what you mean. How is what you describe sound related? I had no problems installing the game. It's when i run the executable it crashes. I use Gentoo too.