Re: 2.1.125: "Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer" is back!

Matija Nalis (mnalis@public.srce.hr)
Wed, 14 Oct 98 22:15 MET DST

On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 04:06:21 +0200 (CEST), Arjan Filius <arjan@arjan.dyn.ml.org> wrote:
>I noticed with 2.1.115 (and not before that, well yes with 2.0.xx) kernel
>messages like:
>Oct 12 03:45:07 sjoerd kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
>Just when playing a wave file when _al lot_ memory is in use, on a UP idle
>system.

Sorry, have no help for that. You may try ALSA drivers instead, I think
they have option to preallocate DMA buffers at startup (http://alsa.jcu.cz)

>Arjan Filius
>mailto:iafilius@xs4all.nl
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>Argh! All right, so how am I supposed to work with Linux when
>everything's already been done?! Can't these people leave some
>broken MSDOS like parts so there's problems left to solve!?....

Now that you mention, pesudo-root feature of UMSDOS filesystem does not
work really. Interested to help ? :)

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