Fatal Error: Sound not working in linux

[citizen]

Fatal Error message is as follows
 "No input line of your sound card is available.
Please close application that use sound card and try again."

Operating system is debian based linux and Sound and internet are working. Tried restaring application as well as rebooting PC, niether corrected the problem.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ with 4GB of RAM + Nvidia GeForce 7600GS + Aureal Vortex au8820 Digital Audio Processor

java -version
java version "1.6.0_06"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_06-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 10.0-b22, mixed mode)

Second problem, clicking on help caused the foolowing message to appear: How are you calling the web browser? or what web browser are you calling?

"Fatal Error
Java.lang.IllegalStateExecption: java.io.IOException: Failed to show URL:http://fluentizer.com/en/manual.html"
FOLLOWING is messages from command line:

java -jar fluentizer.jar
java.lang.IllegalStateException: java.io.IOException: Failed to show URI:http://fluentizer.com/en/manual.html
        at com.revdanica.a.a.b(Unknown Source)
        at com.revdanica.narr.narr.a(Unknown Source)
        at com.revdanica.narr.narr.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1995)
        at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2318)
        at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:387)
        at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:242)
        at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:357)
        at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(BasicMenuItemUI.java:1220)
        at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased(BasicMenuItemUI.java:1261)
        at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6041)
        at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3265)
        at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5806)
        at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2058)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4413)
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2116)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4243)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4322)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3986)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3916)
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2102)
        at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2440)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4243)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:599)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:273)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:183)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:173)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:168)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:160)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:121)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Failed to show URI:http://fluentizer.com/en/manual.html
        at sun.awt.X11.XDesktopPeer.launch(XDesktopPeer.java:75)
        at sun.awt.X11.XDesktopPeer.browse(XDesktopPeer.java:64)
        at java.awt.Desktop.browse(Desktop.java:368)
        ... 30 more
Futhermore can you indicate where i might find the instructions for converting ebooks in text format to the .fbk format.

Thanks for everything in advance,

Mark

[Sergey]

Hmm, that's interesting. Let me investigate.

[Sergey]

The web browser lunch problem:
Does it occur only when you click "Help/How to use Fluentizer..." sub-menu or also when you click "Help/Report a bug.../http://www.fluentizer.com/forum" ?

The sound problem:
Do you know which modes your sound card support?
Particularly, does it support this mode: sampling_rate=44100, bits_per_sample=16, mono, PCM_Signed, bigEndian ?
If you don't know how to list the modes supported by your sound card, please let me know and I will try to find some diagnostic tool for you.

[Sergey]

I have found a program (attached below) to test if the mode sampling_rate=44100, bits_per_sample=16, mono, PCM_Signed, bigEndian is supported by your sound card.
Download the JavaSoundDemo.jar and run it as usual: java -jar JavaSoundDemo.jar
Then go to "Capture/Playback" tab, and select "linear, 44100, 16, signed, big endian, mono". You don't even need to connect microphone, just click the "Record" button and if the mode is not supported it will print an error message. If that happens, please let me know what modes your sound card does support and I will try to add their support into Fluentizer.
Thanks again for the feedback.

[Sergey]

I wrote a small program that prints all sound formats supported by your sound card(s).
The program is attached below.
You can run it like this: java -jar SoundModesTest.jar > modes.txt
Then please send me the modes.txt so that I will be able to fix Fluentizer to work with your sound card.
Thanks.