Failure to play sound in OpenArena (and possibly elsewhere)

[Luke Wolf]

I've been trying to get OpenArena to play with sound, but I'll let the
output speak for itself

   1.
      Output from terminal using "openarena"
   2.
      ------ Initializing Sound ------
   3.
      Allocated 96 sources.
   4.
      OpenAL default capture device is 'ALSA Capture on default'
   5.
      AL lib: alsa.c:564: set access failed: Invalid argument
   6.
      AL lib: oss.c:308: Could not open /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
   7.
      OpenAL capture device failed to open.
   8.
      OpenAL info:
   9.
        Vendor:     OpenAL Community
  10.
        Version:    1.1
  11.
        Renderer:   OpenAL Soft
  12.
        AL Extensions: AL_EXT_EXPONENT_DISTANCE AL_EXT_FLOAT32
      AL_EXT_IMA4 AL_EXT_LINEAR_DISTANCE AL_EXT_MCFORMATS AL_EXT_OFFSET
      AL_LOKI_quadriphonic
  13.
        ALC Extensions: ALC_ENUMERATE_ALL_EXT ALC_ENUMERATION_EXT
      ALC_EXT_CAPTURE ALC_EXT_EFX
  14.
        Device:     ALSA Software on default
  15.
      Available Devices:
  16.
      ALSA Software on default
  17.
      ALSA Software on CA0106
  18.
      ALSA Software on Intel ICH6
  19.
      OSS Software
  20.
      Wave File Writer
  21.
      Sound initialization successful.
  22.
      --------------------------------
  23.
       
  24.
      When using "pasdp openarena" in the terminal
  25.
      ------ Initializing Sound ------
  26.
      Allocated 96 sources.
  27.
      OpenAL default capture device is 'ALSA Capture on default'
  28.
      AL lib: alsa.c:564: set access failed: Invalid argument
  29.
      OpenAL capture device opened.
  30.
      OpenAL info:
  31.
        Vendor:     OpenAL Community
  32.
        Version:    1.1
  33.
        Renderer:   OpenAL Soft
  34.
        AL Extensions: AL_EXT_EXPONENT_DISTANCE AL_EXT_FLOAT32
      AL_EXT_IMA4 AL_EXT_LINEAR_DISTANCE AL_EXT_MCFORMATS AL_EXT_OFFSET
      AL_LOKI_quadriphonic
  35.
        ALC Extensions: ALC_ENUMERATE_ALL_EXT ALC_ENUMERATION_EXT
      ALC_EXT_CAPTURE ALC_EXT_EFX
  36.
        Device:     ALSA Software on default
  37.
      Available Devices:
  38.
      ALSA Software on default
  39.
      ALSA Software on CA0106
  40.
      ALSA Software on Intel ICH6
  41.
      OSS Software
  42.
      Wave File Writer
  43.
      Sound initialization successful.
  44.
      -------------------------------

I have tried padevchooser and using the .alsoftrc edit specified here
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Configuration_of_OpenAL_for_PulseAudio 
but haven't had any luck.
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