Comment 4 for bug 415614

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote : Re: [Bug 415614] Re: No sound with 2 or more java applications at the same time

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:48 PM, komputes<email address hidden> wrote:
> Just installed ubuntu-desktop, so I can also confirmed this happens in
> KDE and GNOME.

See:

AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/dsp: luis 5464 F.... java

In other words, the java plugin uses oss emulation exclusively, and
your sound hardware does not support native multiopen.

In the queue for karmic+1 is osspd, so cuse will be used to route
/dev/dsp to pulse.