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[Gerrit Niezen <gerrit.niezen@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have this problem on lucid with sun-java6. No problem with openjdk,
but it seems that the controlP5 library that is a Processing extension
will only work correctly with sun-java6.

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Sound doesn't work under ALSA without aoss
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415157
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Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
When I try to use a Java program that uses sound (I tried with "processing" from processing.org), Java complains that the sound device cannot be opened:

==== JavaSound Minim Error ====
==== Couldn't open the line: Audio Device Unavailable

This error seems to be a generic Java error, not specific to "processing".

I am using ALSA for sound (i.e. I don't have PulseAudio running), and everything else (mpd, Sonata, Flash, sox, mplayer, vlc, xine &c.) seems to work fine. If I run processing with "aoss processing" then it works fine, but as far as I can see it should work either with ALSA or with PulseAudio.

I have the same problem if I use sun-java6 rather than openjdk.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: openjdk-6-jre 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu11
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openjdk-6
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic i686