Re: [Alsa-user] Failure to load for rme

[Takashi I. <ti...@su...>]

At Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:49:45 -0700,
Paul Winkler wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 06:10:54PM +0100, jp...@cs... wrote:
> > I have built 0.9.0beta12 for RME9652, but when I try to start the
> > driver I get various messages, but 
> > RME9652 memory allocator: no memory available for card 0 buffer 1
> > 
> > is particularly common.  I have had this almost working in the past,
> > but not I cannot start the driver.  Any suggestions?
> 
> IIRC, the RME9652 driver should be loaded at boot time,
> very early in the boot sequence.

yes, more exactly, snd-rme9652-mem module should be loaded.
and this modlue is independent from other modules.  so you can keep
this module loaded while other snd-* modules are un/re-loaded.

> Can anyone confirm this, and maybe explain why?

because rme9652 requires a large _contiguous_ memory for audio
buffers.  the free memory will be fragmented time by time, so you can
acquire such a space usually only at the "fresh" beginning.


Takashi