Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:47:45 +0200 (EET) | From | Tuomas Heino <> | Subject | Re: Sound problems, Scsi CDDA ripping. 2.2+ |
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On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I'm having a problem on three computers, where the computer refuses to > > play sound. I suspect that the sound driver allocates the DMA every time > > the audio device is opened inseted of when the driver is loaded, this is > > not acceptiable with the current state of Linuxes VM. > > Its configurable (dmabuf=1) > Still this isn't too good when you're using modularized sound drivers and want to load them say... after a week of uptime ;) ... or you're developing driver which uses DMA and you hate rebooting every time you make changes to it as the kernel won't give you DMA:ble memory [... or use kmod for sound drivers] I think we need some way to reserve DMA:ble memory in some early stage of booting up the 'puter... or then the memory allocation crap should be redone once again from scratch ;)
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