New Patch is HERE (August 30th!!) Feedback needed for final release.

[zak]

The OpenAL Soft driver I'm using *SHOULD* work assuming your Alsa drivers support it. (and yes pulse audio throws a big wrench and doesn't let you have hardware).

I'd suggest poking around the openal soft website for more info http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html

Well, I cannot explicitly select OpenAL there, but it seems to work fine (i.e. sound is working). In my hpl.log (nice filename by the way ;-) ) it says:

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Initializing Sound Module
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Initializing OpenAL.
  Trying to open audio device... Success!
  Device name: ALSA Software on SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] [ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback] (hw:0,0)
  Number of mono sources: 32
  Vendor name: OpenAL Community
  Renderer: OpenAL Soft
  Output Devices:
    ALSA Software on default
    ALSA Software on SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] [ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback] (hw:0,0)
    ALSA Software on SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] [Multichannel Capture/PT Playback] (hw:0,2)
    ALSA Software on SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] [Multichannel Playback] (hw:0,3)
    ALSA Software on SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] [p16v] (hw:0,4)
    OSS Software
    Wave File Writer
--------------------------------------------------------

If I should do some specific testing, just tell me what I can do.

Edit: Choosing the "Multichannel Playback"-device does not mean I have 5.1-surround-sound, does it?

Edit2: No :-(
"Multichannel Playback" and "p16v" leads to "AL lib: alsa.c:450: set access failed: Invalid argument" in the console.
"Multichannel Capture/PT Playback" results in "AL lib: alsa.c:388: Could not open playback device 'hw:0,2': No such device".
(OSS Software works.)

Zak