high memory versus alsa drivers

[Igor Gueths]

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Hi there. Not sure how much help I'm going to be, since I'm running 2.6.6 (however using memory management, since I have 1GB in this machine). How much memory is in use when you end up loading 
the Alsa drivers? Reason I ask is bc if you only are using about 300MB at the time, there's no real reason that I can think of as to why highmem would be used. 
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 10:16:28AM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> I just added 1 GB of memory to my 256 MB system, which ought to give me
> 1280 MB of ram. The bios detects that much with no problem. However, in
> order for Linux to access more than about 900 MB, I had to recompile the
> kernel (2.4.26) after selecting "highmem" in the configuration step.
> That did the trick okay, but guess what? My alsa drivers will not work
> of highmem is selected. They squeal, squeak, snap, crackle,. and pop
> instead of making nice sounds.
> 
> Does anyone have highmem selected with the alsa drivers working okay? If
> so, what's the secret?
> 
> Oh, this is a Slackware 10.0 distro, and the 2.4.26 kernel is the
> default speakup enabled kernel included with the distribution. The alsa
> version is 1.0.5.
> 
> 
> Thanks for any ideas.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
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