RealAudio 5.0b1: NO sound under linux 2.x

1997-10-16 Thread Oz Dror
I have just installed the new version of RealAudio, but there is no sound.

I get the following message in /usr/adm/messages:

Oct 16 09:25:32 OZ kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer 

sound does work for me in RealAudio 3.0 and other application.

Any ideas?

-Oz
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Re: RealAudio 5.0b1: NO sound under linux 2.x

1997-10-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Oz Dror wrote:

 I have just installed the new version of RealAudio, but there is no sound.
 
 I get the following message in /usr/adm/messages:
 
 Oct 16 09:25:32 OZ kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer 
 
 sound does work for me in RealAudio 3.0 and other application.
 
 Any ideas?

No, but it does work for me (except as a netscape plugin, but that's a
bash problem).



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Re: RealAudio 5.0b1: NO sound under linux 2.x

1997-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Oz Dror wrote:
 I have just installed the new version of RealAudio, but there is no sound.
 
 I get the following message in /usr/adm/messages:
 
 Oct 16 09:25:32 OZ kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer 
 
 sound does work for me in RealAudio 3.0 and other application.
 
 Any ideas?

I often have this problem using various sound programs. The problem is that
the kernel needs to allocate memory in a certian region, and if the memory
there is is use by something else, it fails. What I do is run some large
program (netscape works well) to swap out a lot of memory, and then exit the
program, which hopefully frees up the memory address the kernel needs for DMA,
and then try again.

If netscape doesn't swap out enough memory, I use the swapout program that
is part of the ftape package. On my system with 80 mb ram, I've had to
swapout as much as 60 MB before I could play sounds. Though normally
swapout 16 will do the trick.

I really hate this kernel problem. :-(

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