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