Hi,

The SB X-Fi driver has used MEMLIMIT_ISA (24 bit address range) for a 
while so there should not be any problems in systems with >2G of RAM.

Best regards,

Hannu
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Yair K. wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 בSeptember 2008 11:45:05 Hannu Savolainen wrote:> Clemens 
> Ladisch kirjoitti:> > Hannu Savolainen wrote:> >   > >> If full 32 bit DMA 
> buffer allocation is cousing problems then the> >> SB X-Fi driver needs to be 
> changed to request low memory buffers only.> >> However my understanding is 
> that X-Fi supports full 32 bit DMA range.> >>     > >> > The Audigy chips are 
> supposed to support 32 bits too, but don't actually> > work with more than 31 
> bits.  Apparently (but not in the least> > surprisingly), the X-Fi chips have 
> the same bug.> >> >   > Actually Audigy supports 32 bits properly (but 
> requires some tricks in > the driver). Live! doesn't suport ful PCI addres 
> range and this is > documented feature (not a bug).
> Per the forum some audigy cards don't work right with 32 bit range and the 
> current method being used:
>  http://4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2920 (oss_sblive). 
> http://4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2979 (he uses oss_audigyls with 
> sb 7.1).
> Possibly changing this to 31bit range for 4.1 is good enough?
> Yours,        Yair K.
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