Re: sound problems

Itai Nahshon (nahshon@actcom.co.il)
Sun, 22 Mar 1998 01:18:41 +0300

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

Itai

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