Re: Audio

["E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl>]

[audio crashes because `cannot allocate dma buffer']
> 
>  Unfortunately, the PC ISA DMA controller can't address memory beyond the
> first 16MB. So, when a DMA buffer is requested, the kernel has to find a
> continuous chunk of memory that is physically below 16MB. If it can't find
> it, too bad.
> 

This strikes me more or less as a driver bug then.  If a buffer is
needed in that memory range, why isn't it allocated as soon as the
driver loads, and not released anymore?  I think we are talking about
something like 16KB isn't it?  But I suppose I should be talking to
kernel people, not to a debian list.

Eric

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