On Sat, 22 May 2010, Sean McNamara wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Brandon Kuczenski
<[email protected]> 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
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