Mandriva-2007, nvidia 5600gt pentium 2.8 @ 3.2

X-Plane complains about unresolved symbol alutInit. So I try to install freealut. This complains about libopenal.so.1 not being installed. But I have installed OpenAl. Donn't know what to do now.

I split your post out of the unrelated over one year old thread.


Cheers,
Tink

Where did you installed OpenAl? If you installed from source, maybe the libraries have not been copied in a standard location. Anyway, locate the file libopenal.so.1 and then try (as root)
where /some/dir is the path to the directory containing that lib. This command updates the library cache and create links to the shared libraries. See man ldconfig for details.
In alternative you can simply define/update the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Edit: I checked on my Fedora machine with OpenAl installed. I have OpenAl 0.0.9 which provides /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0 and not libopenal.so.1! Maybe you have to upgrade to the very last version of OpenAl. Just a guess, however...

I found version 1.0.13 of the alsa driver and installed it as suggested.
I rerun my command to start x-plane and still get:

undefined symbol aluinit.

I've tried to install freealut, also found on the alsa web site but I get the error libopenal not satisfied.

Stuck now, what to try?

For informational purposes:

On OpenSUSE 11.0 you have to install the openal1-soft package to have openal.so.1 on your system.