On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 20:36 -0700, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > 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 Do you still get sound from your java apps? You could try running those apps (if they're stand-alone) using aoss or padsp.
