Re: DMA past and present

Aaron Ucko (UCKO@vax1.rockhurst.edu)
Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:23:25 -0600 (CST)


>other than PAS16). Finally some (VLB) motherboards are not able to do DMA
>reliably at all (I had this kind of MB couple of years ago).

Aha! That must be why my sound card sometimes has problems (particularly
under MSDOG; I've never seen the problems with USS Lite, but OTOH I don't
generally play sound-heavy games under Linux...) I do have an oldish
VLB motherboard, after all. But that's life, and I'm getting a new
computer for college in 2 or 3 months anyway. (Speaking of which, does
anyone have any particular recommendations? If so, please send them
directly to me or to <linux-offtopic@binary9.net> rather than polluting
linux-kernel. Thanks.)

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