[alsa-devel] My PC has 6GB memory but the limitation of the alsa-driver is 4GB.

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:15:21 +0100,
I wrote:
> 
> At Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:02:36 +0900,
> Emmanuel Chanel wrote:
> > 
> > The problem "Fedora 10 x86_64 alsa problem: Realtek ALC889A Audio
> > Codec(ATI azalia) not detected on alsa" seems solved.
> > I consulted #alsa on FreeNode. And Mr. Daniel Koukola discovered the
> > reason. He spared for 14 hours in all this evening and all this night
> > for my problem. Thank you very, very, much, Mr. Daniel Koukola!
> > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489828 #17 and #18
> 
> Hmm, then it's a bug of AMD/ATI controller chip.
> 
> The problem is however likely only about CORB/RIRB addresses, and not
> about the sample buffers.  So setting 32bit there couldn't be the
> "right" fix.
> 
> How about the patch below?

BTW, the very latest alsa-driver snapshot tarball is found at:
    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz

Use this for testing.


Takashi