The only problem I've been having with sound (/proc/version: Linux
version 2.0.27 (zblaxell@elmer.myrus.com) (gcc version 2.7.2) #1 Mon
Dec 2 20:59:57 EST 1996) is the occasional "/dev/dsp: Out of memory".
It seems to be something to do with the 16 megabyte DMA barrier; if I
allocate a lot of RAM and release it (say with 'dd obs=124m </dev/zero |
head -c1'), I can get sound working again. This applies to the GUS,
GUS MAX, and SB16.
The bug makes sound completely unusable on a machine with 128 megs of RAM;
it takes about five minutes to swap things out of the "bottom" 16 megs,
and less than a second for all that memory to fill up again.
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