On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 02:49:23PM +0100, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > static int snd_maximum_substreams = 4; > MODULE_PARM(snd_maximum_substreams, "i"); > MODULE_PARM_DESC(snd_maximum_substreams, "Maximum substreams with preallocated DMA >memory."); > MODULE_PARM_SYNTAX(snd_maximum_substreams, SNDRV_BOOLEAN_TRUE_DESC);
Okay, options snd-pcm snd_maximum_substreams=16 allows me to open up to 16 devices, cool. However, on the 17th open attempt I get an OOP: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000050 printing eip: f8a6bb19 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<f8a6bb19>] Tainted: P EFLAGS: 00010286 eax: ee0fc800 ebx: 00000000 ecx: f4873680 edx: f4873680 esi: f4a0c000 edi: f4873680 ebp: ed1fb3c0 esp: ed221e90 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process alsaplayer (pid: 541, stackpage=ed221000) Stack: f4873680 eea3c9c0 f487e2a0 ed1fb3c0 f8a61324 f4873680 fffffff5 eea3c9c0 ed221f00 f8a61405 eea3c9c0 ed221f04 f487e320 f487e200 ed221f00 f4873680 f8a6156e ed1fb3c0 f487e200 00000000 ed221f00 f8a45320 00000000 f4863900 Call Trace: [<f8a61324>] [<f8a61405>] [<f8a6156e>] [<f8a45320>] [<f8a453a0>] [<f8a3f1d0>] [<c0132af5>] [<c0131881>] [<c0131792>] [<c0131ae7>] [<c0106e4b>] Code: 8b 6b 50 83 7e 20 00 74 18 8b 43 44 85 c0 74 11 50 56 e8 a0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EIP decodes to: f8a6b3a0 snd_trident_stop_voice_Rd90f7438 [snd-trident] f8a6b4c0 snd_trident_write_voice_regs_R81a9c453 [snd-trident] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ f8a6d050 snd_trident_pcm_Rbf4ac9ce [snd-trident] > You have probably no continuous DMA memory in your system. Try to increase > the above parameter of the snd-pcm module. It looks like it defaults to 4 even if contiguous DMA memory is available. > It means: get the maximum available configuration space. You should refine > it to single configuration later. Thanks, makes sense now... Andy _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel