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[Jack]

I am trying to access the Formula One live timing Java Applet, and all I get is a gray box.

I would think this would indicate that Java is not working, like it says in their help file.

The test at http://www.javatester.org/ says that Java is working.

The test at http://www.javateste...javascript.html says Javascript is working.

On the test at http://www.javatester.org/enabled.html I get strange results on both my 901 and my desktop.

Test number one indicates that Java is enabled but the "Indeed" is too big to fit in the box.
(I am wondering if the live timing applet does not work because the text is too big for the box.)
(Yes, I have tried making the fonts smaller.)

Test two is to make sure that the Enable Java checkbox is checked, I did that.

Test three indicates that Java is enabled.

Test four indicates that Java is not working.

I am using standard Ubuntu 8.10, and Firefox 3.0.8.

Can someone please help me with this problem?

[Angus77]

Which plugin are you working? I find the Sun version of the plugin works more reliably on my 901 than the Iced Tea plugin (Iced Tea gives me grey boxes a lot).

[Jack]

I am using the Sun version.

[ahbart]

Which version of sun java? Have you installed the java-plugin and the fonts? Is there another (second) version of java installed, like icedtea?

Edited by ahbart, 05 April 2009 - 08:50 AM.

[creepingmee]

I have found even the sun version of java to be very broken in linux. My wife plays pogo games and even when I tried both version 5 and 6 of sun as well as iced tea etc, none of them worked for every game she played. (Though I must say sun's version 5 was the best out of all of them at it). Anyway, to make a long story short, the only way I have ever found to ensure you never have any compatibility problems with Java is, I installed wine, installed the windows version of firefox, and installed the sun java for windows on that. That does the trick, it's not the most elegant solution, but if you are hell bent on playing java games online I have found it's the only one that works every time...

[Jack]

I have Sun Java 1.6.0_0

This is the site I am trying to access: http://www.formula1....ive_timing.html

It is the only Java site I ever use, I try to avoid plugins.
I have never seen it work with anything but Internet Explorer.

[Angus77]

Well, I just tried out the site, and everything seems to be working for _me_.

Sometimes you have both the IcedTea and Sun plugin both installed. Try uninstalling the IcedTea plugin (and reinstalling the Sun plugin just to be sure).

If that doesn't work, try

sudo update-alternatives --config java

and see which jvm you're using.

I can see that I'm using the openJDK jvm and the Sun plugin.

[Jack]

It says:

There is only 1 program which provides java
(/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-cacao/jre/bin/java). Nothing to configure.

[Angus77]

Cacao is not Sun's jvm. I've never used it.

Try installing either Sun's jvm or the openJDK jvm.

sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre

(which I use) or

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre

although you should get the openJDK if you do

sudo apt-get install default-jre

[Angus77]

Oh, and remember to

sudo update-alternatives --config java

when you're done to make sure you're using the right jre.

[Jack]

I tried this:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre

and this:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre

Then I did this:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

and tried all three alternatives, closing and re-opening Firefox in-between, and it still doesn't work.

Edited by Jack, 08 April 2009 - 10:11 PM.

[Angus77]

How long do you wait for the applet to load up? Sometimes it just takes time (and it'll give you a grey window until it's good and ready).

[Jack]

Sorry It took so long to get back to you, I've been out of town.

I waited ten minutes, and still just a gray box.
At the bottom is says "starting applet".

[Angus77]

Well, I've run out of ideas...all I can say is I have the same hardware as you running the same Ubuntu 8.10 (with adamm's kernel) and the applet loads for me fine.

Sorry!

[Jack]

Thanks for trying.

[Jack]

Problem solved!

After installing Ubuntu 9.04 I installed the gstreamer plugins and now it works.

Many thanks again to Angus77 for all the help.