Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 May 1999 18:16:27 +0200 | Subject | Re: Sound problems in 2.2.7 and 2.2.8? | From | (rene.rebe) |
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Tim Smith wrote: > I've been seeing random sound failures with 2.2.7 and 2.2.8. I ran 2.2.1 > for a long time with no such problems. The problem is sound stops working, > and I get "kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer" in my logs, > or "kernel: DMA memory shortage. Temporarily falling back on virtual DMA". > It usually works if I try again a little later, although once it remained > broken until I rebooted. > > Anyone else see this? I'm using a SoundBlaster 32. > > --Tim Smith
I'm using a SoundBlaster AWE 64 and had the same problem yesterday. After freeing the memory (closing all X-programs and the X-Server) sound was ok again.
Rene´ Rebe rene.rebe@t-online.de
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