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Description of problem: Fedora is currently on OpenAL-Soft 1.12.854, but the upstream version is 1.14. The patch notes for 1.14 can be found on the main page: http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html There was a 1.13 release as well, but the notes for that release seem to have disappeared into the void, so here's a archived copy: http://web.archive.org/web/20110724083511/http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html
openal-soft-1.14-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/openal-soft-1.14-1.fc17
Package openal-soft-1.14-1.fc17: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing openal-soft-1.14-1.fc17' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-5474/openal-soft-1.14-1.fc17 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Wish this update came to Fedora 16 as well... HRTF-based mixing is a great feature in this release! :-D
openal-soft-1.14-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.