Comment 18 for bug 311853

Putting openal-soft-1.11.753 in /usr/local/lib (and running ldconfig) fixes this issue by making openal-soft work directly with pulse, rather than using the (presumably broken) alsa-pulse hooks.

Someone please remind me why, after oss, alsa, nas, esd, aRts, jack, gstreamer, SDL, ClanLib, libao and allegro, why did we really need pulse? It feels like the '90s all over again. Who else remembers "You can have a sound card, but you probably can't have duplex."