volume always max even at 1% on my laptop



G'day Toaster, Welcome to Linux.org

Which distro are you running right now ?
 
I am using POP OS
Welcome to the forums

not always the easiest to get working,
please run in a terminal inxi -A and paste back the result
you may have to install inxi from the repository, usually sudo apt-get install inxi
 
Welcome to the forums

not always the easiest to get working,
please run in a terminal inxi -A and paste back the result
you may have to install inxi from the repository, usually sudo apt-get install inxi
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.19-76051619-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.32 running: yes
 
Can't run all sound servers at once. Choose one for your distro and disable the others.

For example, I know antiX uses ALSA, Slackware uses PipeWire now, and I think the 'buntus (of which POP is one) all use PulseAudio. But I could be incorrect. Start with PulseAudio
 
I think the 'buntus (of which POP is one) all use PulseAudio. But I could be incorrect.

You are correct, as far as the Ubuntu family. I have no idea if POP changed that.
 
Can't run all sound servers at once. Choose one for your distro and disable the others.

For example, I know antiX uses ALSA, Slackware uses PipeWire now, and I think the 'buntus (of which POP is one) all use PulseAudio. But I could be incorrect. Start with PulseAudio
I disabled pipewire with sudo systemctl disable --global pipewire
and still same issues but I couldnt find how to disable alsa
 
I don't know your distro. Maybe go to its forum and see if a similar problem has been addressed and fixed.

Search engine is your friend.
 
I don't know your distro. Maybe go to its forum and see if a similar problem has been addressed and fixed.

Search engine is your friend.
I have looked everywhere and it isnt the distro because It happens on every distro
 
We have seen many problems with Pop on this forum, Most people think it's a general distribution based on Ubuntu, But it's not, it is specially constructed to run on System 76's own hardware, as I have said many times, "if it works out of the box, then great, and if it doesn't , it's a pigs rear end to get it working correctly"
 
We have seen many problems with Pop on this forum, Most people think it's a general distribution based on Ubuntu, But it's not, it is specially constructed to run on System 76's own hardware, as I have said many times, "if it works out of the box, then great, and if it doesn't , it's a pigs rear end to get it working correctly"
I have tested other distros like fedora and manjaro on this same machine and I get the same issues so I think it is a kernel level issue.
I am not expecting a solution I am just wanting devs to know about my issue and to hope they consider a patch.
 
use sudo nano instead of sudo vi

Edit the file /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output.conf.common (with sudo):

sudo vi /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/analog-output.conf.common

Add the following lines before the [Element PCM] block:

[Element Master]
switch = mute
volume = ignore

Kill the running daemon:

pulseaudio -k

Now you should have audio.If the daemon does not start, try to start it manually with:

pulseaudio -D

source: https://askubuntu.com/questions/973...ume-or-muted-no-middle-ground/1091197#1091197
 

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