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Date:      Mon, 8 Mar 1999 09:41:00 -0800
From:      Charles Henrich <henrich@flnet.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Erorr: isa_dmainit(2, 1024) failed
Message-ID:  <19990308094100.14836@orbit.flnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199903080911.BAA05661@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 01:11:30AM -0800
References:  <19990308005125.10555@orbit.flnet.com> <199903080911.BAA05661@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On the subject of Re: Erorr: isa_dmainit(2, 1024) failed, Mike Smith stated:

> > During startup on my FreeBSD box (a dual proc 1GB system) I see:
> > 
> > isa_dmainit(2, 1024) failed                                               
> > 
> > And (perhaps) coincidentally any access to the ISA sound card causes the
> > machine to panic with an isa page map missing.  Does anyone out there have
> > any ideas whats causing this, and what a solution might be?  Thanks!
> 
> You have too much memory.  8)
> 
> Seriously, by the time the ISA code gets a chance to allocate memory, all
> the physically dma-able-to memory is gone for other uses.
> 
> This is basically a bug in the way kernel memory is handed out.

How does one fix this? :)

-Crh

       Charles Henrich       Manex Visual Effects       henrich@flnet.com

                       http://orbit.flnet.com/~henrich


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