Volume always at max or mute, no in-between

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I’m on a fresh install of Fedora 38 Workstation on a Lenovo Yoga Slim Pro 7 14ARP8. Downloaded all the updates and everything is working fine except for the audio.

Volume is always at max or muted, doesn’t matter where I position the slider.
I’ve tried this fix gnome - My volume is either max volume or muted, no middle ground - Ask Ubuntu but it results in a misaligned volume slider between pipewire and the audio card (checked this through alsamixer)

[flajello@fedora ~]$ inxi -A
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor driver: snd_pci_acp6x
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  API: ALSA v: k6.4.15-200.fc38.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.80 status: active

[flajello@fedora ~]$ aplay --list-devices --list-pcms
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pipewire
    PipeWire Sound Server
default
    Default ALSA Output (currently PipeWire Media Server)
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=Generic,DEV=1
    HD-Audio Generic, HDMI 1
    HDMI Audio Output
sysdefault:CARD=Generic_1
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC287 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC287 Analog
    Front output / input
surround21:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC287 Analog
    2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC287 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC287 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC287 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC287 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Generic_1,DEV=0
    HD-Audio Generic, ALC287 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Generic_1 [HD-Audio Generic], device 0: ALC287 Analog [ALC287 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[flajello@fedora ~]$ lspci -k
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe Root Complex (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe Root Complex
00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h IOMMU
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h IOMMU
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe Dummy Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 14b8
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1453
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe Dummy Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:02.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe GPP Bridge
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1453
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:02.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe GPP Bridge
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1453
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:03.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe Dummy Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:03.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 19h USB4/Thunderbolt PCIe tunnel
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1453
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:04.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe Dummy Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:08.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h PCIe Dummy Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h Internal PCIe GPP Bridge (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h Internal PCIe GPP Bridge
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:08.3 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h Internal PCIe GPP Bridge (rev 10)
pcilib: Error reading /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:08.3/label: Operation not permitted
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h-19h Internal PCIe GPP Bridge
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 71)
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller
	Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
	Kernel modules: i2c_piix4, sp5100_tco
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 51)
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 0
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 3
	Kernel driver in use: k10temp
	Kernel modules: k10temp
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 5
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 6
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 7
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GN20-P0-R-K2 [GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3801
	Kernel driver in use: nouveau
	Kernel modules: nouveau
02:00.0 Network controller: MEDIATEK Corp. MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device e0c6
	Kernel driver in use: mt7921e
	Kernel modules: mt7921e
03:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller PM9A1/PM9A3/980PRO
	DeviceName: Realtek
	Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a801
	Kernel driver in use: nvme
	Kernel modules: nvme
73:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rembrandt [Radeon 680M] (rev 06)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 381f
	Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
	Kernel modules: amdgpu
73:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio Controller
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 381a
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
73:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] VanGogh PSP/CCP
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] VanGogh PSP/CCP
	Kernel driver in use: ccp
	Kernel modules: ccp
73:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #3
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #3
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
73:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #4
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #4
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
73:00.5 Multimedia controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor (rev 60)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3872
	Kernel driver in use: snd_pci_acp6x
	Kernel modules: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x, snd_pci_acp5x, snd_pci_acp6x, snd_rpl_pci_acp6x, snd_pci_ps, snd_sof_amd_renoir, snd_sof_amd_rembrandt
73:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 386e
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
74:00.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #8
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #8
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
74:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #5
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #5
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
74:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #6
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4 XHCI controller #6
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
74:00.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4/Thunderbolt NHI controller #1
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Rembrandt USB4/Thunderbolt NHI controller #1
	Kernel driver in use: thunderbolt
	Kernel modules: thunderbolt

My exact same problem was posted here Fedora 36 PipeWire Master Does Not Control Sound Card PCM Volume Linearly - #4 by ilikelinux, the only difference being that mine affects both the speakers and headphones.

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My current workaround is the following:

Modify analog-output.conf.common in /usr/share/alsa-card-profile/mixer/paths by adding

[Element Master]
switch = mute
volume = zero

before

[Element PCM]
switch = mute
volume = merge
override-map.1 = all
override-map.2 = all-left,all-right

and then control the volume manually through alsamixer because the gnome volume slider is not aligned to the PCM control in alsamixer, resulting in a lower volume (almost inaudible) at lower levels (e.g when the slider is at 50%, PCM is set to 30).

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Hello Gabriele,

Have you managed to make it work? I have the same laptop and am facing the same issue with CachyOS (KDE).

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Just leaving it here in case anyone has the same trouble, but this fixed it for me: Reddit - Dive into anything