So on Ubuntu, when I boot into the normal window manager, everything works great. But when I boot into awesome, I need to use alsamixer to control the sound. The problem is that it no longer works after restarting for everything I try (headphones, default laptop speakers, and hdmi speakers).
I am able to use "amixer -c 1 sset 'Master' 75%" to change the volume from the terminal, and the changes can be seen from alsamixer, but still, no sound.
In the alsamixer menu, when pressing F6, it gives me 3 options: - (default), 0 HDA Intel HDMI, 1 HDA Intel PCH. Only the last option has anything meaningful with actual volume levels.