Hello, I have allocated the DMA memory using the function "snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all" passing SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV and "card->dev" as inputs to the function. Later, in the hw_params call out function I allocate pages to the requested DMA memory region using the function "snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages". I play a wav file "Noise.wav" from command line by giving the following command ./aplay --file-type wav -f dat Noise.wav And, when I print the DMA region physical address in the "prepare" call out through "dma_addr" member of the runtime structure I get a weird decimal value of "-1036562432" as the physical address. Can anyone point where I might be going wrong in the whole DMA memory allocation? Regards; Aadish _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel