Grakul
June 20th, 2010, 09:48 AM
Hi, All
I've been having no end of trouble trying to play Yahoo Pool on Ubuntu 10.04. My first problem was that the table wouldn't load properly. When I started a game, the pop-up came up, and the advert on the top of the screen, but the area where the table was supposed to load was blank, and the status at the bottom of the window said "Done." After much googling, I came across this page (http://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/java#TOC-INSTALL-FROM-THE-PARTNER-REPOSITORY), which instructed me to remove OpenJRE and IcedTea and install Sun Java from the partner repository. I did that, and now I can play Yahoo Pool.
But there's no sound! :( I unchecked and re-checked the "Sound" checkbox in the table window, but no luck. I went through all the options in the "Sun Java 6 Plugin Control Panel", but I couldn't see anything related to sound--maybe I missed it? I did a lot of googling, but all I could find was an old bug in Java 1.5 that's allegedly been fixed, and an allusion to the fact that the Sun Java tries to access the sound card directly which Ubuntu doesn't allow, but I can't figure out how to change this.
I can play Yahoo Pool just fine under Windows (in both Chrome and IE, but I haven't tried Firefox) with sound.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Grakul
I've been having no end of trouble trying to play Yahoo Pool on Ubuntu 10.04. My first problem was that the table wouldn't load properly. When I started a game, the pop-up came up, and the advert on the top of the screen, but the area where the table was supposed to load was blank, and the status at the bottom of the window said "Done." After much googling, I came across this page (http://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/java#TOC-INSTALL-FROM-THE-PARTNER-REPOSITORY), which instructed me to remove OpenJRE and IcedTea and install Sun Java from the partner repository. I did that, and now I can play Yahoo Pool.
But there's no sound! :( I unchecked and re-checked the "Sound" checkbox in the table window, but no luck. I went through all the options in the "Sun Java 6 Plugin Control Panel", but I couldn't see anything related to sound--maybe I missed it? I did a lot of googling, but all I could find was an old bug in Java 1.5 that's allegedly been fixed, and an allusion to the fact that the Sun Java tries to access the sound card directly which Ubuntu doesn't allow, but I can't figure out how to change this.
I can play Yahoo Pool just fine under Windows (in both Chrome and IE, but I haven't tried Firefox) with sound.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Grakul