[arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

[Kyle]

According to Rodrigo Rivas:
> Have you tried running "alsamixer -D hw" and see if there are any 
> muted channels in your hardware? 

Master is at 87% normally. Once GDM runs, it zeros out and mutes. Also, 
once pulseaudio starts, the Master channel zeros out and mutes.

Also, once I had a similar problem and solved it by simply deleting the 
files at ~/.pulse/*.tdb

Unfortunately this is also not working. I even tried deleting the entire 
~/.pulse directory with no luck. Thanks for the help.
~Kyle