From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 8 1:17:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles178.castles.com [208.214.165.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9B6514E7F; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 01:17:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA05661; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 01:11:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199903080911.BAA05661@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Charles Henrich Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Erorr: isa_dmainit(2, 1024) failed In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Mar 1999 00:51:25 PST." <19990308005125.10555@orbit.flnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 01:11:30 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message