Minecraft won't load; Gives a black screen.

[anthony62490]

I'm trying to play Minecraft, but every time I try to load up the game (at this page), it shows the loading bars followed by a blank black screen. My Java Packages are:

ca-certificates-java
gcj-4.4-jre
gcj-4.4-jre-headless
gcj-jre
gcj-jre-headless
icedtea6-plugin
java-common
libaccess-bridge-java
libaccess-bridge-java-ini
libclucene0ldbl
libgcj10
libswt-gtk-3.5-java
openjdk-6-jre
openjdk-6-jre-headless
openjdk-6-jre-lib
sun-java6-bin
sun-java6-jdk
sun-java6-jre
tzdata-java

Any ideas?

[donkyhotay]

Which one is your default that your browser uses? I play minecraft (bought the alpha even) and don't have any issues. The only version of java I have installed is the "sun java" version. If you need all those different java's installed and don't know which one your browser is using then download the client and try running each one through the CLI.

[chewit]

Remove IceTea plugin. Install sun-java6-plugin.

Works fine for me on Ubuntu using Firefox

[anthony62490]

[...D]ownload the client and try running each one through the CLI.

I'm sorry. You want me to download a Java client? Not entirely sure which package that's in. Details please?

NOTE1: After removing the IcedTea packages and the OpedJDK packages, Minecraft doesn't even give a black screen. The stone background shows right through.

NOTE2: Tried running dpkg-reconfigure sun-java6-jre and I got some strange messages.

anthony@anthony-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure sun-java6-jre
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu'
Unknown media type in type 'fonts/package'
Unknown media type in type 'interface/x-winamp-skin'

[alexandrius]

search in synaptic and install from there

[anthony62490]

search in synaptic and install from there

I have tried to do this. Would you mind telling me which package is needed?

EDIT: Interesting. Typing

about:plugins

into the URL gives no mention of a Java plugin. It just lists my Flash, VLC and QuickTime plugins.

[anthony62490]

bump

[anthony62490]

Okay, I went ahead and bought the Alpha, so I downloaded the JAR file and it runs beautifully. So, I guess this thread is solved then. But I still can't run Java apps in Firefox.

[alexandrius]

sun-java6-plugin

[medeshago]

I'm playng in the alpha version but I don't get any sound. Is anybody else having the same issue?