> figure that out by reading the DMA residue count of channel 6, necessarily
> while DMA on that channel is in progress. Well, I wouldn't be writing
> this if it worked. Maybe someone who has written e.g. soundboard drivers
> can help us to get out of the ditch?
Sound driver contains code for doing this (get_buffer_pointer() in dmabuf.c).
The code seems to work at least in the machines where I tried it. It
could be possible that it doesn't work with all motherboards/PC chipsets.
Hannu
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