[armyops] 1.7.0 audio...

[Ryan C. Gordon]

> code, OpenAL on Linux appears to prefer the use of the SDL backend.  I could
> be wrong, of course.  Since this is a wee-bit off-topic for this list, I'm

You're wrong.  :)

SDL output should be considered a desperation fallback in OpenAL for
people with buggy drivers or some other strange output device AL doesn't
support.

/dev/dsp should be the default, but AL has support for ALSA, too. And you
can pick your favorite (OSS, ALSA, SDL, null device) via the ~/.openalrc
config file.

--ryan.