Torsten,
> I usually write a little c program which allocate some MB of memory,
> afterward there is usually enough memory for DMA available.
A fellow debianiter has told me to use 'swapout' from the ftape
package. So far it works!
Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Rati
Kenneth,
> 1: 86 your floppy and get an LS120 drive. If your computer has it's
> IDE interface on the PCI side it will have access to all of memory
> space.
Don't have the money.
> 2: 86 your ISA sound card and buy a PCI sound card. Same story as
> above.
Don't have the money.
Ray,
> The PC architecture cannot do DMA above 16MB. It's just not possible.
> Since the PC was designed to run in less than 640KB, no one ever expected
> it to be a problem. You have over 90MB of RAM, so now it's a problem for
> you.
Thank you very much for your message. It was very des
Well there is something you can do...
1: 86 your floppy and get an LS120 drive. If your computer has it's
IDE interface on the PCI side it will have access to all of memory
space.
2: 86 your ISA sound card and buy a PCI sound card. Same story as
above.
Now we know why intel and ms want isa to
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Pere Camps wrote:
> Hi!
> floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory
[...]
> Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
[...]
> I'm using Linux 2.0.35. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
The PC architecture cannot do DMA above 16MB. It's just
On: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:16:30 + (GMT) Pere Camps writes:
>
> Hi!
> While using mtools I get the following error:
>
> floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory Can't open /dev/fd0: Device
> not configured Cannot initialize 'A:'
>
> And whilst
Hi!
While using mtools I get the following error:
floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory
Can't open /dev/fd0: Device not configured
Cannot initialize 'A:'
And whilst using mpg123 I get this one:
Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
Can't open /d
Hi!
mcopy and mpg123 and wavplay tell me:
floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory
Can't open /dev/fd0: No such device or address
Cannot initialize 'A:'
mcopy: File "a:*" not found
Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
Can't open /dev/dsp
Hello,
I try to (floppy-) install Debian Linux on a new Dell PowerEdge 2200 server,
but when I come to Base Disk 1, I get the error:
floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory
/dev/fs0: No such device or address
Please insert disk 1 and press ENTER
Does anyone recognise this?
Any help appreciated
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