Re: Sound error: Can't allocate DMA buffer

[<spectral@hangar18.campus.luth.se>]

Hi Carl,

> Does anybody know how to get around the sound dma buffer problem?  I
> am pretty sure the problem is that the system can't find any free
> memory in the bottom 16MB.  I think that there is a way to lock in the
> dma buffer, but I don't remember how, and I haven't managed to find
> the right documentation.  I can get it working by starting a large
> program to swap out some memory and then kill it, but it is a pain to
> do that every time I want to use any audio.

I had the same problem with some kernels, but with 2.2.14 it works fine.
I saw that there is a patch at www.alsa-project.org , maybe thats what you
need.

/Jonas