Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

[Conrad Nelson <yaro@marupa.net>]

Hello everyone!

I have a conundrum for you.

Today I had rebooted into Windows to take care of something and when I 
booted right back into debian, my sound became very very very quiet. To 
confirm my hardware wasn't on the fritz, I rebooted back into Windows to 
be greeted with normal volume. Back in Linux I double checked and found, 
indeed, all my relevant channels (Master, PCM, and Front.) were maxed out.

Later in alsamixer I unmuted and maxed out every channel I could find, 
input and output. No dice.

Any ideas on why ALSA is suddenly outputting my sound so very quietly 
despite my volume levels being all the way up?

Thanks.