Bug#586761: sun-java6-plugin: Please add PulseAudio support!

[Garrett McLean]

Or should this bug be filed against sun-java6-bin instead?

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Garrett McLean <gmclean at gmail.com> wrote:

> Package: sun-java6-plugin
> Version: 6.20-dlj-4
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi,
>
> If I run jars with padsp java -jar <jar>, sound works great. If I just run
> java
> -jar <jar>, the sound gets lost in what has become known as the terrifying
> jungle of Linux audio (http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/05/) and
> never
> makes it to my speakers.
>
> It'd be great if somehow all java programs -- but in particular applets
> since
> they are trickier to run through padsp -- could somehow check for
> PulseAudio
> and, if it's present, run the applet through padsp (or maybe an even better
> solution than this!). Probably a simple bash script would suffice.
>
> Thanks for all your hard work!
>
> -Garrett
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>  APT prefers unstable
>  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages sun-java6-plugin depends on:
> ii  iceweasel                     3.5.9-3    Web browser based on Firefox
> ii  libasound2                    1.0.23-1   shared library for ALSA
> applicatio
> ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-3  X11 client-side library
> ii  libxext6                      2:1.1.1-3  X11 miscellaneous extension
> librar
> ii  libxi6                        2:1.3-4    X11 Input extension library
> ii  libxt6                        1:1.0.7-1  X11 toolkit intrinsics library
> ii  libxtst6                      2:1.1.0-2  X11 Testing -- Resource
> extension
> ii  sun-java6-bin                 6.20-dlj-4 Sun Java(TM) Runtime
> Environment (
>
> sun-java6-plugin recommends no packages.
>
> sun-java6-plugin suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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