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Re: Sound Hardware Compatibility

by Chris Robinson-5 :: Rate this Message:

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On Tuesday 19 May 2009 2:55:39 pm Jason Daly wrote:
> Jim B. wrote:
> > Currently, we support 2 different Unix/Linux builds; one using OSS sound
> > and the other using SDL sound.  So, one question is: is it worthwhile to
> > keep the SDL version?  Is it likely that there would be systems that
> > could not run OpenAL-Soft 1.7.411 that would be able to run with SDL
> > sound.
>
> I'll let Chris answer this one, as I'm not sure what the current state is.

I'm not aware of many systems that can use SDL and not OpenAL Soft, at least
for systems where OpenAL Soft is the normal OpenAL lib. Not to say there
aren't any, but OpenAL Soft should run on a wide range of systems.
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