It most certainly does. However: Current kernel hackers seem to prefer to work around the situation by reverting to a timidity based software emulation of midi. It is not exactly the same as the emu10k1 midi, and - if you ask me - is of lower quality. Thus, at least kernel developers have a reason to say "go away, we don't need to care".
Second, fixing the issue requires a deeper modification of the kernel, namely providing a more flexible memory allocation, or more DMA zones. The above hack does the trick, and it doesn't affect stability, but it changes the DMA zones of course - and just doing that for a single card might not be a good argument. Instead, the kernel should provide means to allocate memory with more flexible constraints than just the DMA zones that exist now. However, the issue doesn't seem to be pressing enough to move forward - at least this is my impression. Any kernel developers reading this here and could comment on this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183456 Title: Trying to load a sf2 file with asfxload returns "sfxload: no memory left" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/awesfx/+bug/183456/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
