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Originally Posted by wehrmacht

Oh yes, here is the pastebin URL if it is of interest to anyone: general pastebin - kev - post number 1056255

Thanks, I was looking at that. It notes you have an option in your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file of: model=laptop and that you have a CX20549. The 20549 used to be called the 5045 and 5047. When I look at the model options for the 5045 I see this (which does not have a "laptop" option):

948		Conexant 5045
949		  laptop-hpsense    Laptop with HP sense (old model laptop)
950		  laptop-micsense   Laptop with Mic sense (old model fujitsu)
951		  laptop-hpmicsense Laptop with HP and Mic senses
952		  benq		Benq R55E
953		  test		for testing/debugging purpose, almost all controls
954				can be adjusted.  Appearing only when compiled with
955				$CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y

but the 5047 has these options (which include model=laptop):

957		Conexant 5047
958		  laptop	Basic Laptop config 
959		  laptop-hp	Laptop config for some HP models (subdevice 30A5)
960		  laptop-eapd	Laptop config with EAPD support
961		  test		for testing/debugging purpose, almost all controls
962				can be adjusted.  Appearing only when compiled with
963				$CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y

Linux Kernel Documentation :: sound : alsa : ALSA-Configuration.txt

If you are curious, you could in your /etc/modprobe.d/sound file, try changing "laptop" to "laptop-hpsense" and restart your alsa (from an xterm/konsole with root permissions) via "rcalsasound restart" and then check out your mixer. If that doesn't improve your options, then instead try "laptop-micsense" (with same "rcalsasound restart" .... ) and also laptop-hpmicsense, laptop-hp, laptop-eapd.

And of course, you can simply leave it (or put it back to) model=laptop