On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk>wrote:
> There are two possibilities I can think of. One is that you're using > pulseaudio and not checking its volume level (to confirm this, start > alsamixer and press F6 to select a different 'card'). > Didn't think I was using pulseaudio, checked anyway to be sure. Pulse isn't in the equation for me. > Alternatively, the windows driver might know about some control on your > sound card that ALSA doesn't. Check the ALSA webpage for information > about your sound card (you didn't say what it was) and see if anyone's > reported bugs. > Here's the lspci -v output on that: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 20f2 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 Memory at fc220000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel