On Sat, 22 May 2010, Sean McNamara wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Brandon Kuczenski > <brandon.kuczenski at 301south.net> 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. > > Let me give you some background on why this is happening. > > /dev/dsp is an OSS (Open Sound System) device. OSS is a legacy sound > API that is not supported on newer distros. > ... > > 1. The easy solution -- to stop ALSA's OSS emulation -- is to remove > the snd-pcm-oss module and all the modules that depend on it, from > your Linux kernel. For one boot, you can do this with modprobe -r or ... Thanks for the background. I've blacklisted snd-pcm-oss and removed it with modprobe -r. I had to also blacklist snd_seq_oss (love the inconsisten hyphenation) but now the problem seems to have gone away. Thanks again! -Brandon
