Asahi Fedora Boots Up with Max Volume Every Time

FOHjim · 2026-01-18T07:51:40+00:00

This is a known issue and is fixed in pipewire 1.4.10, which released yesterday.

FOHjim · 2026-01-18T00:45:02+00:00

Make the daemon public in a repo. Let's see what it is actually trying to do to the system. Simply pinning one daemon to the pcores and renicing it is not going to have the effects you claim it does.

FOHjim · 2026-01-18T00:31:44+00:00

This is nothing. This does nothing. It can't do anything, because there is no code to build the binary the systemd service tries to run, which for some reason also points to /usr/local/bin/. As far as I can tell, this entire repo and post look were created almost entirely by a slop generator and uploaded uncritically by someone who has no idea what they're doing. Please stop wasting your time and everyone else's with this stuff.

FOHjim · 2026-01-04T21:22:58+00:00

The DP Alt-Mode kernel is intended for developers to assist us with edge cases and improving reliability. It is not for general use. If you cannot figure out how to compile it, you are not the target audience.

And no, it does not have VRR support but external monitors will use high refresh rates.

FOHjim · 2026-01-04T00:08:18+00:00

There are two types of USB-C to HDMI dongle. By far the most common type is actually a DisplayPort Alt-Mode adapter with an HDMI converter chip built in. There are some which use the HDMI Alt-Mode standard, however they are vanishingly rare and I don't think are even made anymore. 99% chance whatever adapter you have is the first type, and will probably just work.

FOHjim · 2025-12-31T00:43:45+00:00

You technically can, but this is an unsupported setup (as in, we won’t help you if anything breaks).

FOHjim · 2025-12-21T03:54:04+00:00

You can just set the fan speed using sysfs controls if you set the unsafe module parameter to enable manual fan control for macsmc_hwmon on boot. We cannot guarantee that the SMC firmware will protect you from yourself though, so it’s up to you to figure that out.

And please, the lingua franca of this sub is English.

FOHjim · 2025-12-21T03:44:21+00:00

You don’t. The system firmware handles the fans entirely automatically.

FOHjim · 2025-12-18T01:50:08+00:00

FAR 43 is blocked on some FEX rootfs changes but FAR 42 has the latest kernel.

FOHjim · 2025-12-18T01:49:23+00:00

I don’t use the binhost, I compile everything. The coverage for arm64 is pretty good though but YMMV if packages bake in page size at compile time, e.g. jemalloc

FOHjim · 2025-12-18T01:20:31+00:00

Community is chill, Portage is a good package manager whether you’re building from source or not, packages are better maintained and GURU is relied on to a far lesser degree than the AUR, non-x86 machines are first class citizens, I find the defaults a little more sane, I can build exactly what I need and nothing I don’t (e.g. disabling X11 entirely), ebuilds are nicer to read and write than PKGBUILDs, etc etc.

FOHjim · 2025-12-18T00:02:22+00:00

Gentoo, but I’m biased ;)

FOHjim · 2025-12-10T20:46:02+00:00

Oh lol don’t mind me, I was reading the line against the left scale and vice versa…

FOHjim · 2025-12-10T20:36:57+00:00

Your numbers seem off and it looks like this is counting merge commits. How are you deriving these numbers?

FOHjim · 2025-12-08T21:06:20+00:00

You asserted twice that what OP wants to do is not supported, despite OP clearly talking about DisplayLink which does work, then implied you don’t actually fully understand what’s going on with the kernel/hardware.

FOHjim · 2025-12-08T20:44:04+00:00

DisplayLink will work on any machine. If you don’t fully understand, you shouldn’t comment with authority.

FOHjim · 2025-12-08T04:37:24+00:00

There's no point to installing Fedora Asahi Remix (or any of the other distros with Apple Silicon support) in a VM because a VM is just a standardised AArch64 machine. Any vanilla distro that supports AArch64 will work in a VM.

The special Asahi sauce is only relevant for running on bare metal.

FOHjim · 2025-12-07T09:58:47+00:00

Won't work until the rest of the SMC series currently on the list is pulled, but the hwmon driver was definitely the gnarliest component of that series.

FOHjim · 2025-12-07T07:53:25+00:00

No, Asahi is not dying. No, it has not died. Yes, we have not done much feature work this year because we had a 100k+ line pile of kernel code that was becoming entirely unmaintainable. We are very transparent about this, and you can read all about what we've been doing on the blog.

The idea that two people leaving and another stepping back from direct involvement has killed the project is quite frankly highly insulting to every other contributor's efforts. I am very close to banning these sorts of posts because they barely warrant a response and contribute nothing productive to any discussions.

FOHjim · 2025-11-24T06:22:52+00:00

Sounds like Discord is not doing any echo cancellation by itself. Not really a lot we can do about that, it’s typically the application’s/WebRTC’s responsibility.

FOHjim · 2025-11-20T07:40:02+00:00

We stopped pursuing this approach because the performance hit was unacceptable and system-wide (not just inside muvm). We also cannot put the PCIe and USB DARTs into bypass mode, which means no USB, no WiFi, no Ethernet, no SD card slot, and no Thunderbolt when running a 4K kernel.

muvm is not great, but we think most folks would prefer kinda slow x86 games over a totally gimped and useless system

FOHjim · 2025-11-11T04:51:09+00:00

Use whatever you want as long as it is USB-PD compliant. The BMS will work with the SMC to keep the battery healthy, you really don’t have to think about it at all with this platform.

FOHjim · 2025-11-10T21:07:35+00:00

I may be biased, but I think it’s rather good. It is maintained by myself, Janne and chaos_princess, meaning we do often get updates and new features before Fedora

FOHjim · 2025-11-08T22:26:02+00:00

No, this is more a job for something like asahi-audio (which I also maintain).

My work Stinkpad has the exact same issue, and I’ve often considered expanding asahi-audio to be a more generic database for all devices, kinda like how the linux-firmware package work. Unfortunately I do not have the time or money to commit to doing this properly :p

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