From: Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: high memory versus alsa drivers
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 10:27:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041009152735.GA26295@blackbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0410091008440.7854@sent.com>
Hi. I'm sure you already did this, but did you re-compile your alsa
modules?
Probably not helpful, but I had to ask.
Kenny
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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