Ray,
The PC architecture cannot do DMA above 16MB. It's just not possible.
Since the PC was designed to run in less than 640KB, no one ever expected
it to be a problem. You have over 90MB of RAM, so now it's a problem for
you.
Thank you very much for your message. It was very
Torsten,
I usually write a little c program which allocate some MB of memory,
afterward there is usually enough memory for DMA available.
A fellow debianiter has told me to use 'swapout' from the ftape
package. So far it works!
Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio
On: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:16:30 + (GMT) Pere Camps writes:
Hi!
While using mtools I get the following error:
floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory Can't open /dev/fd0: Device
not configured Cannot initialize 'A:'
And whilst using mpg123 I get this one:
Sound error
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Pere Camps wrote:
Hi!
floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory
[...]
Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
[...]
I'm using Linux 2.0.35. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
The PC architecture cannot do DMA above 16MB. It's just not possible.
Since the PC
Well there is something you can do...
1: 86 your floppy and get an LS120 drive. If your computer has it's
IDE interface on the PCI side it will have access to all of memory
space.
2: 86 your ISA sound card and buy a PCI sound card. Same story as
above.
Now we know why intel and ms want isa to
Hi!
While using mtools I get the following error:
floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory
Can't open /dev/fd0: Device not configured
Cannot initialize 'A:'
And whilst using mpg123 I get this one:
Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
Can't open /dev/dsp!
And free
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