I have tried the small "2L" change by Thomas Richter and it works fine, no negative side effects so far. Apparently, the 4GB barrier was a bit of an arbitrary value anyway, you can read about that here: https://lwn.net/Articles/152337/
I found the memmap=2048M\\$6144M "workaround" proposed on http://www .alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-emu10k1 rather ridiculous, even if it doesn't require patching. With Thomas' simple fix making it rather easy for us to solve our problem, let's hope the kernel devs won't change the MAX_DMA32_PFN code too soon so that it doesn't apply anymore. Because I do not believe they will care about 1 or 2 pieces of hardware that will eventually fade into history on all new non-PCI systems... Still, isn't it quite an achievement that we can still use a soundcard that has been released ages ago? BTW: The changes no longer have to be done in arch/x86/include/asm.h but in arch/x86/include/asm/dma.h for recent kernels. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183456 Title: Trying to load a sf2 file with asfxload returns "sfxload: no memory left" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/awesfx/+bug/183456/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
