Sound levels

[Richard Andrews]

  I have an ES1868 based sound card (Audiodrive, ISA 16bit) in my home PC.
Every time I start up the machine running linux the sound mixer levels revert
to factory setting and I have to start up a mixer program again (I use xmix -
it's simple) and reset those levels.
  Win95 manages to keep the settings OK.
  Does anyone know a way of keeping the levels?
  I figure it's a Plug&Play problem since I don't have the problem with the old
SB16 card in my work machine under the same linux setup.