Re: sound problems

Wakko Warner (wakko@ani.animx.ml.org)
Sat, 21 Mar 1998 18:54:54 -0500

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> > I've recently gotten lots of "can't open /dev/dsp" due to can't allocate DMA
> > buffer... I have 96M of ram (Which I have heard that >16M machines have
> > this problem)... Is there anyway to keep it from doing this? (DMA
> > buffersize is currently set for 32768)
>
> The 96MB cannot help you much... Sound DMA memory is allocated only

I know the dma buffer is in the first 16M of ram... I was wondering if
there's a work around for this.

> in the first 16MB. There was some memory leak in the sound driver,
> I do not know if it's fixed yet.

Would unloading then reloading the sound.o module help?

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