Undoing early speaker support hacks

Introduction

You are probably here because you tried to enable your speakers early, and a change in config between when you did this and the public release of speaker support broke something. You were warned.

Below are some fixes for common early adopter hacks. Please try all of them before filing a bug. Your bug will be ignored if we find that you have failed to rectify any of the issues below.

The Pro Audio profile is/was enabled for the internal speakers / headphones

This one can happen in one of three ways:

You have changed the profile while headphones were plugged in
You have been using a very, very, very old version of asahi-audio
You have circumvented Wireplumber node permissions to experiment with device profiles

In the first case change the profile back to Default (HiFi). In KDE’s Audio settings change the profile back to Default. If no headphones are plugged in press Show Inactive Devices. The same should be possible with applications like pavucontrol. In doubt delete WirePlumber’s sstate directory (rm -rf ~/.local/state/wireplumber/) and reboot.

The fix in the two other cases is the the same:

rm -rf ~/.local/state/wireplumber/
Reinstall asahi-audio, Pipewire and Wireplumber
Reboot your machine

You have files in /etc/ from a prerelease version of asahi-audio

Very old versions of asahi-audio stored their configuration inside /etc/pipewire/ and /etc/wireplumber/. There should be nothing Asahi related in either of these directories or any of their subdirectories. To fix this:

rm -rf /etc/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/*asahi*
rm -rf /etc/wireplumber/main.lua.d/*asahi*
rm -rf /etc/wireplumber/policy.lua.d/*asahi*
rm -rf /etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/*asahi*

Once you have done this, reinstall asahi-audio, Pipewire and Wireplumber then reboot your system.

You have files in /usr/share/ from a prerelease version of asahi-audio

Prerelease versions of asahi-audio had files in /usr/share/ that do not match the ones that shipped with 1.0. These files can conflict with the release versions, causing issues. You must manually remove all asahi-audio files:

rm -rf /usr/share/asahi-audio/
rm -rf /usr/share/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/*asahi*
rm -rf /usr/share/wireplumber/main.lua.d/*asahi*
rm -rf /usr/share/wireplumber/policy.lua.d/*asahi*
rm -rf /usr/share/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/*asahi*

Once you have done this, reinstall asahi-audio, Pipewire and Wireplumber then reboot your system.

You have tried to manually circumvent our kernel-level safety controls

Remove snd_soc_macaudio.please_blow_up_my_speakers from wherever you added it. This could be the default kernel command line, modprobe.d, or somewhere else. Reboot when this is done.

Required speaker codec settings are not being applied

This can happen if you are on an old kernel, or you have manually set snd_soc_tas2764.apple_quirks to some nonstandard value. As above, remove any reference to this module parameter, update your kernel, then reboot.