how do I make Java use Pulseaudio?

[LinUsr@Flanders]

Hi,

Ok, still on to the silent Java. I use Java to (yes, laugh.. .) play Runescape. I can hear the (midi?) music but none of the ambient sounds. In a chatbox I (over) heared that it is clever (needed/required) to use Pulseaudio.

How do I make the JRE use paulseaudio?

Tnx

Thor

[fwelland]

This may be water under the bridge by now, but I just struggled thru this myself (not for runscape) There are a few ways out on the Web to do this, but this is the method that worked for me -- it is not perfect -- sound can have some stutters in it, it actually seemed to get better after I used it for a bit, weird...there could be a tweak for this...

Fedora release 13 (Goddard)
2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP
SUN Jdk installed in /opt/jdk1.6.0_22
Firefox tweaked to use this JDK...

DO:

cp /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/lib/i386/libpulse-java.so /opt/jdk1.6.0_22/jre/lib/i386/.
cp /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/lib/ext/pulse-java.jar /opt/jdk1.6.0_22/jre/lib/ext/.
mv /opt/jdk1.6.0_22/jre/lib/i386/libjsoundalsa.so /opt/jdk1.6.0_22/jre/lib/i386/libjsoundalsa.so.bak

add the following lines to bottom of /opt/jdk1.6.0_22/jre/lib/sound.properties

javax.sound.sampled.Clip=org.classpath.icedtea.pul seaudio.PulseAudioMixerProvider
javax.sound.sampled.Port=org.classpath.icedtea.pul seaudio.PulseAudioMixerProvider
javax.sound.sampled.SourceDataLine=org.classpath.i cedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioMixerProvider
javax.sound.sampled.TargetDataLine=org.classpath.i cedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioMixerProvider


Restart your firefox and try java applet with sound...and try a linux or gnome program with sound too....

Note: I think the problem is that SUN/Oracle JDK has a default configuration of using ALSA. ALSA is kinda low-level and doesn't support** mixing of multiple streams -- hence why there is high level sound deamon like pulse.. The above steps configure Sun's JDK to use a different sound configuration -- namely the one for OpenJDK/IceTea --which outputs to pulse.... It would be great if Sun/Oracle made 2 'things' for linux jdks: pulse and alsa....




** ALSA 'dmix' plugin can do mixing and you can achieve a similar thing by using dmix...ymmv

[HMSS013]

yum install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio

[LinUsr@Flanders]

Hello fwelland, tried that...and I got sound. I took the liberty of making a note (got a hude notbook by now ) to remember this for the next install...
Yo hmss013, these were installed, hence my confusion...oh well, Linux still is my thing!!!

Thanks!

Thor