[linux-audio-dev] interesting info regarding hdsp behavior

[Paul Davis]

>I've been messing with hdsp and found out an interesting issue. After
>installing the driver for the first time onto the xp machine I also had
>no sound coming out of the soundcard even though totalmix app showed
>levels to be up. After clicking on the levels and/or moving them a bit,
>suddenly the sound was there (as if the default values were there only
>in the app itself, but did not affect the actual levels on the card
>until they were moved for the first time). I was wondering maybe this is
>the problem we're having in Linux, where the card loads just fine, but
>for some reason there is no sound until a reboot has taken place.

this problem has already been fixed.

it was caused by a missing register write on intel systems (the
relevant one was there for PPC systems). marcus fixed this, oh, maybe
2-3 months ago.

--p