Comment 14 for bug 183456

I don't quite understand your comment. The above "fix" applies to the AMD64 platform. There is no such thing as a 32bit DMA zone on x86, but still the kernel might want to allocate physical addresses for the buffer memory beyond the 2GB barrier (bit 31 set), thus it is prone to failure in any system equipped with more than 2GB of RAM. Sure enough, a *small* soundfont could be loaded if enough memory is available in the 16MB DMA zone, but this depends on a lot of other factors (as, for example, which other devices require DMA memory).

So long,
Thomas