Feedback requested on an OpenAL audio driver patch

[Nick Burns]

I finally figured out my dsound HEL problem (was making too many buffers) -- 
now I wait and only use a few buffers.

It seemed to work well for GTA3, Tribes2 and FlatOut(requires a binary patch 
to run) (dsound) -- and for SndRec32 (win/wout)
(Games and ...App... tested under Mac OSX x86 -- Mac Book Pro)

Remove the disable 'OPENAL_DISABLE_IN' to test wavein. (Forced off due to 
some issues of my OpenAL framework (I could only record at 44k -- could not 
figure out how to force 44k only for wavein) -- others may have better luck)

So here is my patch --
It adds it to winecfg, the makefile.in, configure.ac
And it adds the new files (the actual driver why not)

I would like any feedback ppl out there may have.
(It is missing a ChangeLog thingy -- that would look like the below)
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2006-06-04 Nick Burns

* configure.ac:
    Added checks for OpenAL (Mac OSX and linux).

* dlls/Makefile.in:
    Added OpenAL to build thingy.

* include/config.h.in:
    Added OpenAL to config -- using autoheader (may not be needed).

* programs/winecfg/audio.c:
    Added OpenAL to winecfg for choosing.

* dlls/winmm/wineopenal/openal.c, dlls/winmm/wineopenal/openal.h,
      dlls/winmm/wineopenal/audio.c, dlls/winmm/wineopenal/wineopenal.drv.spec,
      dlls/winmm/wineopenal/Makefile.in:
    Initial checkin of OpenAL driver.
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- Nick

[Robert Reif]

Nick Burns wrote:
> It seemed to work well for GTA3, Tribes2 and FlatOut(requires a binary 
> patch to run) (dsound) -- and for SndRec32 (win/wout)
> (Games and ...App... tested under Mac OSX x86 -- Mac Book Pro)

How do the winmm and dsound regression tests work when run in the 
interactive mode?

[Nick Burns]

> From: Robert Reif 
> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 20:55:58 -0400
>
> Nick Burns wrote:
> > It seemed to work well for GTA3, Tribes2 and FlatOut(requires a binary 
> > patch to run) (dsound) -- and for SndRec32 (win/wout)
> > (Games and ...App... tested under Mac OSX x86 -- Mac Book Pro)
>
> How do the winmm and dsound regression tests work when run in the 
> interactive mode?

I did not know these tests existed -- cool...
So I ran dsound_test and winmm_test (interactive mode?) on the command line
There are some failures -- but no crashing

Some games like Carmageddon2 are unhappy with openal atm.

- Nick