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From: Paul Jakma <paulj@itg.ie>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> If the sound card is only used some of the time or setup and then used
> for TV its nice to get the 60K + 128K DMA buffer back when you dont need it
> especially on a low end box
> 

so unload it then - aiui most soundcards will continue passing through
the TV line? right?

or another argument: how common is this case that a box with such
tight memory is used in such a multi-purpose way (sometimes it
uses sounds, mostly not? and even then, for such a case, is it
reasonable to assume the user should deal with the memory
problems? (ie it's not unreasonable to expect them to have to do extra
fiddling with mixer levels).

but surely the vast majority of machines with soundcards have no good
reason for unloading them?

--paulj

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