diff --git a/alienarena.spec b/alienarena.spec
index e5d9374..3bc2957 100644
--- a/alienarena.spec
+++ b/alienarena.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Name:		alienarena
 Summary: 	Multiplayer retro sci-fi deathmatch game
 Version:	7.30
-Release:	1%{?dist}
+Release:	2%{?dist}
 License:	GPLv2+
 Group:		Amusements/Games
 # Subversion:  https://svn.icculus.org/alienarena/trunk/?sortby=date
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ URL:		http://red.planetarena.org/
 BuildRoot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 BuildRequires:	libX11-devel, libXext-devel, libXxf86dga-devel, libXxf86vm-devel, libjpeg-devel
 BuildRequires:	mesa-libGL-devel, mesa-libGLU-devel, curl-devel, libpng-devel
-BuildRequires:	libvorbis-devel, openal-devel
+BuildRequires:	libvorbis-devel, openal-soft-devel
 BuildRequires:	desktop-file-utils
 Requires:	alienarena-data = 20090730
 Requires:	desktop-file-utils >= 0.9, opengl-games-utils
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ cp -p %{SOURCE2} .
 # clean up end-line encoding
 [[ -e docs/README.txt ]] && %{__sed} -i 's/\r//' docs/README.txt
 
+# So, AlienArena now "uses" openal by dlopening the library, which is hardcoded to 
+# "libopenal.so". That file only lives in openal-devel, so we need to adjust the hardcoding.
+LIBOPENAL=`ls %{_libdir}/libopenal.so.*.* | cut -d "/" -f 4`
+sed -i "s|\"libopenal.so\"|\"$LIBOPENAL\"|g" source/unix/qal_unix.c
 
 %build
 cd source/
@@ -147,6 +151,10 @@ gtk-update-icon-cache -qf %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor 2>/dev/null || :
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Aug 12 2009 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 7.30-2
+- fix dlopen code to find proper openal library
+- use openal-soft instead of old openal
+
 * Thu Jul 30 2009 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 7.30-1
 - update to 7.30