On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Darac Marjal
<mailinglist@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.
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