Newbie questions on sound

[Michael Chu]

Hi all

Just got the FS code compiled and running on my (RedHat) Linux box.  FS1 and 
the FS2 demo run great, except for one shared problem:  I don't get any 
in-game music, or any briefing voice overs.
Is this normal?  I saw another post with this same question, but no response 
to it.

On a slightly related note, I seem to be having issues running OpenAL with the 
arts sound server.  OpenAL detects the server, but I never hear anything when 
playing the game.  I checked this out with a few of the test programmes that 
came with the OpenAL source (e.g. testsingle, testtime, testvorbis) and they 
all show the same problem:  no sound (and no error messages) with the artsd 
server running.
Can anyone shed some light on this problem of mine?
I configured OpenAL with the following command:
./configure --enable-prefix=/usr/local --enable-optimization --enable-arts 
--enable-waveout --enable-null --enable-sdl --enable-vorbis --enable-capture

Thanks

Mike