Re: Sound problems, Scsi CDDA ripping. 2.2+

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:34:56 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I'm having a problem on three computers, where the computer refuses to
> > play sound. I suspect that the sound driver allocates the DMA every time
> > the audio device is opened inseted of when the driver is loaded, this is
> > not acceptiable with the current state of Linuxes VM.
>
> Its configurable (dmabuf=1)

Thank you! This fixed it!

Is there a reason this is not the default? I think most people can spare a
few k of ram.. :)

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