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

[Urkle]

Pulse audio frustrates me.
It really does. IMHO it has been causing more problems than it solves.

There is a newer version of the OpenAL Soft library that should hopefully fix those issues. IF Ubuntu 9.10 ships that lib (which it may, or it may be available via the repos) try installing that and moving/removing the libopenal.so.1 in the "lib" directory of the game install.

I'm going to be spending some "linux time" on my one box this weekend (still don't have a dedicated linux box, have to dual boot my mac machine) and am going to wrap all of these changes up and put out patches for collection and individual games.