X-Plane 8.50 for Linux - No Sound

Beginning with the last couple of release candidates and then the final release of X-Plane 8.50 for Linux I was dismayed to discover I no longer had sound. Thanks to a thread I found on forums.x-plane.org it turned out to be a problem easily corrected by upgrading my OpenAL audio API to the latest version.

I started X-Plane and placed myself at CYVR (Vancouver International). Once again I could hear the rain pelting against the windscreen of my 172.

CYVR 180500Z 09009KT 10SM -SHRA FEW020 BKN045 OVC060 07/07 A3010 RMK SC2SC4SC2 SLP193

As of February 11, 2006 the most current version of OpenAL is openal-0.0.8-1.