[gentoo-user] How to Fix Extraoardinarily Loud Alsa?

[Hunter Jozwiak]

Hi,

I finally got the base install of Gentoo done, but I've come across a
really interesting probleing. After installing Alsa and enabling its
daemon, I had copied the asound.conf from the distro I was using on to
the system. Unfortunately, this give the side effect that ALSA is
extremely loud (I would guess top volume), and none of the sliders
seem to work. I am using my Intel high definition audio card. Has
anyone come across a similar issue? If so, how did you go about fixing
it?