Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using pulseaudio in per-user mode (as directed). From firefox I > visited a webpage with an embedded java applet (Text Twist from > notoriously unfriendly yahoo!) and found that java has seized control of > /dev/dsp. pulseaudio applications which typically work quite well are now > unhappy. > > Is there a workaround to this ? I would rather have silent java apps than > have java kill sound for other programs. > > Thanks, > Brandon OpenJDK has native pulse support which works with the Sun JDK as well. Make sure that you have the following files inside your JDK: jdk/jre/lib/amd64/libpulse-java.so (in case you arch is amd64) and jdk/jre/lib/ext/pulse-java.jar If you use the Sun JDK you can extract these file from e.g. the OpenJDK deb from your distro and just copy them to above destinations. Furthermore you need to set pulse as default sound device: jdk/jre/lib/amd64/sound.properties should contain: # OpenJDK on Ubuntu is configured to use PulseAudio by default javax.sound.sampled.Clip=org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioMixerProvider javax.sound.sampled.Port=org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioMixerProvider javax.sound.sampled.SourceDataLine=org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioMixerProvider javax.sound.sampled.TargetDataLine=org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioMixerProvider One more step to a perfectly integrated pulse system :) Regards, Jens
