Re: DMA Probs with SB 64 AWE Gold

Nadeem Riaz (nads@bleh.org)
Fri, 19 Nov 1999 20:47:16 -0500


Admin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> my /var/log/messages keeps overflowing with those 'unable to allocate dma buffer'-messages from the sound driver!
> System is a PIII-450 on a Gigabyte 686 BX with 256MB Ram, AIC7780 on Board with one Fast UW SCSI Disk, 1 Pioneer DVD-Rom, 1 Nakamichi CD Changer, Traxdata CDRW-Writer, Zip Drive,
> PCI ISDN Card, PCI DEC Tulip ethernet card, Hauppauge WinTV-Radio, 3dfx Voodoo 3 AGP. The only ISA Cards are the SB64 and an Adaptex 152x SCSI controller.
>
> Any Hints?
>
> bye
> Mathias
>
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You have to enable Persistant DMA buffers in your kernel configuration (its under sound)

-- Nadeem

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