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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:35:32 +0100,
I wrote:
> 
> At Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:15:49 +0900,
> Emmanuel Chanel wrote:
> > 
> > When I did
> > tar xvf Softwares/alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz
> > cd alsa-driver
> > 
> > I couldn't patch again... I modified my hands, though. I tried the
> > modification. I couldn't listen any sounds.
> > --(About patch problem)
> > [emmanuel at star1 alsa-driver]$ patch -p1 <
> > patch-Takashi_Iwai_0903162.diff
> > patching file sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
> > Hunk #1 FAILED at 2136.
> > Hunk #2 FAILED at 2218.
> > Hunk #3 FAILED at 2323.
> > 3 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> > sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c.rej
> 
> 	% cd alsa-driver/alsa-kernel
> 	% patch -p2 < MYPATCH
> 
> 
> > -- The soundcard is detected on alsa but it doesn't output sound.
> 
> Run alsa-info.sh with --no-upload option and attach the generated
> file.  The script is found at
> 	http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh

Also, check whether the driver without my patch but only with
your original change (force to set 32bit DMA) works together with
the latest alsa-driver snapshot.

If 32bit DMA works as is, then my patch is wrong.  It shouldn't set
64bit DMA after CORB/RIRB allocation.


Takashi