No sound using internal speakers, but I have sound using headphones

I just finished installing archlinux with GNOME3 on a laptop, everything were perfect until I detected a problem: I only have sound using headphones, the internal speakers of the computer doesn't work. I followed the official wiki step by step and I never had this problem using other linux distributions.
Any idea?

I'm having the very same issue. Each time I boot computer I have to unmute the speaker in order to have sound. Only the headphones are unmuted by default. From what I understand alsa-store and alsa-restore are supposed to run automatically on boot and shutdown only (normally they appear in inactive/dead state).
I have tried to run 'alsactl store', but this won't help.
The whole thing start happening only recently (late December). I have arch on this laptop for over 3 years and it was fine as far as I remember.
EDIT:
I have just found that this issue is due to pulseaudio 2.1 -> 3.0 upgrade. After downgrading to 2.1 it works as expected.
EDIT2:
Maybe you will find that useful, a temporary "fix". I have added to startup applications (in my case in gnome-session-properties):
amixer -c 0 sset Speaker Playback 95%
which just simply sets the speaker volume to 95% each time I log in.
Last edited by kmiernik (2013-01-14 12:17:57)

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