I recently booted my Mac up (KDE, Fedora 41) and found that I couldn’t adjust the speaker volume at all. I tried using the function keys, taskbar slider, and the options in system settings. I could still however mute the speakers completely.
One thing I noticed is that the name of the speaker device had changed from “Macbook J313 Speakers” to “Raw Speaker Device (do not use)”. This makes me think that speakersafetyd or something in the asahi-audio framework failed.
I do remember recently installing an asahi-audio update, so I thought that could be it.
The issue seems to be intermittent, sometimes I boot up and I can adjust the speakers perfectly.
Any ideas?
Thanks.