src/share/classes/com/sun/media/sound/SoftSynthesizer.java

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              });
  
              actions.add(new PrivilegedAction<InputStream>() {
                  public InputStream run() {
                      if (System.getProperties().getProperty("os.name")
+                             .startsWith("Linux")) {
+ 
+                         File[] systemSoundFontsDir = new File[] {
+                             /* Arch, Fedora, Mageia */
+                             new File("/usr/share/soundfonts/"),
+                             new File("/usr/local/share/soundfonts/"),
+                             /* Debian, Gentoo, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu */
+                             new File("/usr/share/sounds/sf2/"),
+                             new File("/usr/local/share/sounds/sf2/"),
+                         };
+ 
+                         /*
+                          * Look for a default.sf2
+                          */
+                         for (File systemSoundFontDir : systemSoundFontsDir) {
+                             if (systemSoundFontDir.exists()) {
+                                 File defaultSoundFont = new File(systemSoundFontDir, "default.sf2");
+                                 if (defaultSoundFont.exists()) {
+                                     try {
+                                         return new FileInputStream(defaultSoundFont);
+                                     } catch (IOException e) {
+                                         // continue with lookup
+                                     }
+                                 }
+                             }
+                         }
+                     }
+                     return null;
+                 }
+             });
+ 
+             actions.add(new PrivilegedAction<InputStream>() {
+                 public InputStream run() {
+                     if (System.getProperties().getProperty("os.name")
                              .startsWith("Windows")) {
                          File gm_dls = new File(System.getenv("SystemRoot")
                                  + "\\system32\\drivers\\gm.dls");
                          if (gm_dls.exists()) {
                              try {