First of all, type 'ps aux | grep pulseaudio' to verify whether you use Pulseaudio or GStreamer. If you use Pulseaudio and used GStreamer before, it's probably good to clear your config, remove xfce4-volumed and install xfce4-volumed-pulse instead (courtesy of Lionel Le Folgoc). Be careful that xvd picks up the first sound card it finds when it runs, so if xvd ends up controlling the sound of your TV, kettle, cat, or something else than your "primary" speakers, then you'll have to go into the xfconf settings of xvd (using xfce4-settings-editor for instance) and modify the settings to use another card.
Which brings us to checking your audio cards: http://www.linuxnix.com/2013/06/find-sound-card-details-in-linuxunix.htmlwill give you some commands to identify your sound card, then you can try to google it and see if it's one of those cards that are known to be misfunctioning on default installs of GStreamer on your distro (happened a lot back in the day when I wrote xvd). Generally speaking if you're using GStreamer then it's a good idea to find out what card you have, and go through GStreamer's bugzilla in search for information on potential memory leaks or issues. As a gentle reminder, xfce4-volumed is no longer supported. It might be time to switch to Pulseaudio and use xfce4-volumed-pulse instead :) 2014-04-30 10:47 GMT+01:00 Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>: > How do I determine which backend is being used? I am also suffering > from the same problem. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607474 > > Title: > xfce4-volumed using too much RAM > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/xfce4-volumed/+bug/607474/+subscriptions > -- Steve Dodier-Lazaro PhD Student in Information Security University College London Free Software Developer OpenPGP : 1B6B1670 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607474 Title: xfce4-volumed using too much RAM To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xfce4-volumed/+bug/607474/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
