high memory versus alsa drivers

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

I appreciate your suggestions, Kenny. The card is an sb-live pci card.
Slackware uses stock kernels without any Slackware specific patches, so
I doubt this problem is distro specific. I could be wrong about that
recompiling thing I suppose, but the config file sure looks like it to
me. I am a little uncertain how to handle the more traditional alsa
packages now that alsa seems integrated into the kernel, but I guess I
could always grab the latest tarballs and start from scratch compiling
and installing alsa using a kernel with highmem selected.

Chuck

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Kenny Hitt wrote:

> Hi.  The agpgart modules is used so programs can access the video card
> on the AGP bus.  I haven't seen the alsa modules get automatically
> compiled before, so that must be something specific to Slackware.  Like
> I said, my idea probably wasn't helpful but I had to ask just in case.
> I have another idea which probably won't be helpful either.  In the past
> with my older sound cards and earlier Alsa, I remember an option to tell
> the driver to reserve DMA in low memory.  Don't know what card you have
> or if the option has changed, but it might be something to look for in
> the docs for the alsa drivers.
>
> Good luck figuring it out.
>          Kenny
>
> On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 11:45:01AM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
>> Hi Kenny,
>>
>> Prior to kernel 2.4.26, I used to have to do that after every recompile
>> that involved a change of modules, but with 2.4.26 the alsa drivers
>> compile with the kernel, evidently. They are loading okay. The output of
>> lsmod is identical with and without highmem selected, and all the alsa
>> components are there, same sizes and dependencies.
>>
>> Oh -- there is one additional line in the lsmod output when highmem is
>> selected. It is "agpgart" and I am not familiar with that piece.
>>
>> Chuck
>>
>>
>>
>>
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