Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Feb 1999 08:37:10 -0800 (PST) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer |
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On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Mark Lord wrote: > Ever since 2.1.131 (Dec.6/98), my UP systems sees a lot of these > (even withe 2.2.2-pre2 from the "test" directory): > Feb 5 22:08:08 foxy kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer > Feb 5 22:08:18 foxy last message repeated 7 times
Means that low memory is too fragmented for the kernel to be able to allocate ISA DMA buffers. This is a problem that has been with the kernel since 1.1.x days...
-Dan
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