Re: Soundblaster getting 2 DMA channels?

Jeroen-bart Engelen (yeep@xs4all.nl)
Wed, 29 Jul 1998 04:41:25 +0200 (CEST)

> > Jul 26 08:18:57 red kernel: <Sound Blaster 16 (4.5)> at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1,5
> > Jul 26 08:18:57 red kernel: <Sound Blaster 16> at 0x330 irq 5 dma 0
> >
> > I don't understand this: Looks like my SB16 is getting 2 DMA
> > channels. This can't be right can it?
>
> I believe the SB's use one dma channel for 8 bit sound,
> and another for 16 bit sound.

That's correct, however his card uses three DMA's
Namely: 0, 1 and 5
The last line indicates that his midi (I guess, since it's located at
0x330) get's his own DMA.
I don't know it that's normal though.

Yeep

Uncommon Linux errors:
EWOULDBENICE: Feature not implemented yet

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