No, I haven’t. It is for bluetooth, which works fine. The volume levels are correct and change as before from 0-100%. The only issue is with default, inbuilt laptop speakers.
Just to list additional info:
pactl list sinks
Sink #53
State: SUSPENDED
Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_69_00.6.HiFi__Speaker__sink
Description: Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio Controller Speaker
Driver: PipeWire
Sample Specification: s32le 2ch 48000Hz
Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Owner Module: 4294967295
Mute: no
Volume: front-left: 1966 / 3% / -91,37 dB, front-right: 1966 / 3% / -91,37 dB
balance 0,00
Base Volume: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB
Monitor Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_69_00.6.HiFi__Speaker__sink.monitor
Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec
Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
Properties:
alsa.card = "3"
alsa.card_name = "HD-Audio Generic"
alsa.class = "generic"
alsa.components = "HDA:14f120d0,278212c3,00100001"
alsa.device = "0"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
alsa.id = "CX11970 Analog"
alsa.long_card_name = "HD-Audio Generic at 0xdc5c0000 irq 126"
alsa.mixer_device = "_ucm0004.hw:Generic_1"
alsa.mixer_name = "Conexant CX11970"
alsa.name = "CX11970 Analog"
alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
alsa.subdevice = "0"
alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
alsa.sync.id = "00000000:00000000:00000000:00000000"
api.alsa.card.longname = "HD-Audio Generic at 0xdc5c0000 irq 126"
api.alsa.card.name = "HD-Audio Generic"
api.alsa.open.ucm = "true"
api.alsa.path = "hw:Generic_1"
api.alsa.pcm.card = "3"
api.alsa.pcm.stream = "playback"
audio.channels = "2"
audio.position = "FL,FR"
card.profile.device = "0"
device.api = "alsa"
device.class = "sound"
device.id = "44"
device.profile.description = "Speaker"
device.profile.name = "HiFi: Speaker: sink"
device.routes = "1"
factory.name = "api.alsa.pcm.sink"
media.class = "Audio/Sink"
device.description = "Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio Controller"
node.name = "alsa_output.pci-0000_69_00.6.HiFi__Speaker__sink"
node.nick = "CX11970 Analog"
node.pause-on-idle = "false"
object.path = "alsa:acp:Generic_1:0:playback"
port.group = "playback"
priority.driver = "1000"
priority.session = "1000"
factory.id = "19"
clock.quantum-limit = "8192"
client.id = "41"
node.driver = "true"
node.loop.name = "data-loop.0"
library.name = "audioconvert/libspa-audioconvert"
object.id = "53"
object.serial = "53"
api.acp.auto-port = "false"
api.acp.auto-profile = "false"
api.alsa.card = "3"
api.alsa.use-acp = "true"
api.dbus.ReserveDevice1 = "Audio3"
api.dbus.ReserveDevice1.Priority = "-20"
device.bus = "pci"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:69:00.6"
device.enum.api = "udev"
device.icon_name = "audio-card-analog-pci"
device.name = "alsa_card.pci-0000_69_00.6"
device.nick = "HD-Audio Generic"
device.plugged.usec = "8486538"
device.product.id = "0x15e3"
device.product.name = "Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio Controller"
device.subsystem = "sound"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:69:00.6/sound/card3"
device.vendor.id = "0x1022"
device.vendor.name = "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]"
device.string = "3"
Ports:
[Out] Speaker: Speaker (type: Speaker, priority: 100, availability unknown)
Active Port: [Out] Speaker
Formats:
pcm
What I am curious about is this line:
Volume: front-left: 1966 / 3% / -91,37 dB, front-right: 1966 / 3% / -91,37 dB
When I changed volume to 4% it shows:
Volume: front-left: 2621 / 4% / -83,88 dB, front-right: 2621 / 4% / -83,88 dB
Why does it shows dB with minus? Is it correct?
After many updates and a lot of time passed, it wasn’t fixed. Since this is an issue only on my end and was triggered by the update, this has to be some weird, unusual hardware interaction. This means, it probably wasn’t reported. However, I don’t know what is happening and why, so I don’t know where to report. It can be on Plasma level (plasma-pa), it may be alsa, pipewire or something else related.
Sound system on Linux is too complex and confusing, so any info about it feels like some disjointed, confusing data, which doesn’t explain anything, because the whole picture is too big and without understanding it. There is no needed context, and the articles never explain or point to it.