The current version of openal-soft in portstree contains a bug preventing it from finding playback devices if OSS is used. Here is openal-info output: $ openal-info Available playback devices: !!! none !!! Available capture devices: OSS Default Default playback device: Default capture device: OSS Default ALC version: 1.1 .. skipped ... Fix: One of openal-soft developers told me it has been fixed. Here is repository diff related to this problem: http://repo.or.cz/w/openal-soft.git/blobdiff/29f77003c03578546a8a723e68b19951b4555843..648464a2da25277c4b90dac8484053ce98581a9b:/Alc/backends/oss.c To fix this you can simply put attached file to audio/openal-soft/files directory and then rebuild the port. Here is the patched openal-info output: $ openal-info Available playback devices: OSS Default Available capture devices: OSS Default Default playback device: OSS Default Default capture device: OSS Default ALC version: 1.1 Patch attached with submission follows: How-To-Repeat: 1. Install audio/openal-soft 2. Make sure there is no ALSA installed 3. Open the terminal and call "openal-info" utility.
Class Changed From-To: maintainer-update->change-request Fix category (submitter is not maintainer) (via the GNATS Auto Assign Tool)
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->mva Over to maintainer (via the GNATS Auto Assign Tool)
State Changed From-To: open->closed Fun fact: I originally submitted that patch to the upstream and had it around in my local ports for months. Thanks for pointing it out!