Re: Memory problem with bttv driver

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:56:54 +0000 (GMT)


> > The bt848 drivers are working beautifully
> > for me in 2.4.18pre
>
> Well, I had a quick look at the code, and it seems that vmalloc is just
> failing, the source line is obvious./proc/meminfo before modprobe and xawtv:
>
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 1054728192 120070144 934658048 0 10420224 65257472
> Swap: 1085652992 0 1085652992
>
> Can this be highmem-related?

That would make complete sense if so. The bttv uses vmalloc_32(), as the
card has 32bit limits, and I am not running bttv (nor I suspect are most
people) with highmem enabled
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