Re: floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory

[Torsten Hilbrich <Torsten.Hilbrich@gmx.net>]

On: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:16:30 +0000 (GMT) Pere Camps writes:
> 
> Hi!
> 	While using mtools I get the following error:
> 
> floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory Can't open /dev/fd0: Device
> not configured Cannot initialize 'A:'
> 
> 	And whilst using mpg123 I get this one:
> 
> Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
> Can't open /dev/dsp!
> 
> 	And free tells me:
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:         95504      93484       2020      52712      26976      43312
> -/+ buffers/cache:      23196      72308
> Swap:       102276        540     101736
> 
> 	I'm using Linux 2.0.35. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I usually write a little c program which allocate some MB of memory,
afterward there is usually enough memory for DMA available.

e.g.:

#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
  calloc(10*1024*1024);
  return 0;
}

Without any guaranty of success,

	Torsten