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

Emmanuel Chanel emmanuelchanel at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 19:02:58 CET 2009


Your revice on the mail below didn't work. I cannot listen the sound.

2009-03-16 (Mon) 18:37 +0100 Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:29:36 +0900,
> Emmanuel Chanel wrote:
> > 
> > My result of "your original change"
> > Attached file: alsa-info-090317-Daniel is the result of alsa-info.sh
> > And alsa-driver-090317-Daniel-info.txt is script output.
> > I could listen sounds with that modification.
> 
> OK, then apparently the DMA buffers have to be in 32bit, too.
> 
> There might be a missing register to set 64bit DMA for ATI chipset,
> but right now it's safe to set 32bit DMA for them...
> 
> The below is the revised patch.  Could you check whether it works?
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Takashi
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Emmanuel Chanel <emmanuelchanel at gmail.com>
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