Re: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Mon, 8 Feb 1999 08:37:10 -0800 (PST)
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Mark Lord wrote:
> Ever since 2.1.131 (Dec.6/98), my UP systems sees a lot of these
> (even withe 2.2.2-pre2 from the "test" directory):
> Feb 5 22:08:08 foxy kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
> Feb 5 22:08:18 foxy last message repeated 7 times
Means that low memory is too fragmented for the kernel to be able to
allocate ISA DMA buffers. This is a problem that has been with the kernel
since 1.1.x days...
-Dan
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