Sound suddenly very quiet on laptop

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The laptop I am using has a pair of external speakers attached.

It seems the sound has now suddenly gone very low (baby's sleeping noise level).

I have checked the laptop volume keys and made sure it is at the top.
I have checked the ubuntu volume applet is at the top.

This started happening after a patch and reboot at which time it said it could not start the volume control applet. I have manually re-added it to the top bar.

The sound preferences panel has all out sound as autodetect and the mixer as Intel HDA.

Any pointers very welcome or I am going to have to go back to headphones, great big speaker sized ones strapped to my head.

Thanks
RB
 
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Ok,

Answer is here.

Something turned down the PCM volume (I suspect Realplayer). As I didn't have the volume control until I just manually added it I could not see and could only change the master volume :D.

Thanks
RB
 
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