With Pulseaudio ,I have to drag the volume control slider to maximum-100% to hear sound at a comfortable volume.I installed alsa-1.0.19 from a repository hoping a later version will fix this. Is there any workaround for this?
Take a look here: http://blog.chris.szikszoy.com/2008/12/howto-fix-low-system-volume-on-ubuntu-810-intrepid/