Hi Carl, > Does anybody know how to get around the sound dma buffer problem? I > am pretty sure the problem is that the system can't find any free > memory in the bottom 16MB. I think that there is a way to lock in the > dma buffer, but I don't remember how, and I haven't managed to find > the right documentation. I can get it working by starting a large > program to swap out some memory and then kill it, but it is a pain to > do that every time I want to use any audio.
I had the same problem with some kernels, but with 2.2.14 it works fine. I saw that there is a patch at www.alsa-project.org , maybe thats what you need. /Jonas