2013/7/3 Andrew Skretvedt <andrew.skretvedt at gmail.com>: > I just completed a test: I edited /etc/java-6-openjdk/sound.properties > to switch off the default PulseAudio configuration (referenced in my > first post), to the DirectAudioDeviceProvider (i.e. lines like: > > javax.sound.sampled.Clip=org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioMixerProvider > > became > > javax.sound.sampled.Clip=com.sun.media.sound.DirectAudioDeviceProvider > > .) > > This worked out for me as I hoped. In pavucontrol, a playback slider > for java now appeared, as had done for the Flash plugin I mentioned > above. > I think we can also conclude that something is broken with the way > IcedTea 1.3.2 accesses PulseAudio...at least as configured for > debian/Crunchbang (I don't know how such things work). Yes, that's a logical conclusion. In fact, on my Gentoo system, I could not configure Java to access pulseaudio directly, i.e. DirectAudioDeviceProvider was already the default, and attempts to replace it with PulseAudioMixerProvider were unsuccessful. -- Alexander E. Patrakov
