Impossible to change Volume

[hitgub043]

Distribution

Current 7/3/25

Package version

Current 7/3/25

Graphics hardware in use

NVIDIA GeForce RTC 3050 Mobile

Frequency

Always

Bug description

I'm using an ASUS Zenbook Pro 17, which has some fancy built-in speakers. The results of inxi -A are:
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda _intel
Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor driver: snd_pci_acpox
Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
API: ALSA v: k6.14.0-1006-oem status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active
Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active

No matter what I do, the Volume sliders do not affect the volume level AT ALL. This is a completely fresh installation of Linux Mint downloaded 2 days ago. I ran the Update Manager and installed anything available, and the issue persists.

The Volume is either muted or at full volume. No matter where on the slider you click between 0% and 100%, the volume of audio playback does not change at all.

Steps to reproduce

-Attempt to change volume
-Spend 2 hours researching issue
-Report bug since no solution exists

Expected behavior

Playback volume changes when adjusted with Gnome's volume sliders.

Additional information

No response

[claudiux]

Both pipewire and pulseaudio are active. This is not normal.

This page can help you:
https://github.com/orgs/linuxmint/discussions/462

[hitgub043]

Both pipewire and pulseaudio are active. This is not normal.

This page can help you: https://github.com/orgs/linuxmint/discussions/462

That's not the issue; the issue was occurring before I installed the second audio thing. I installed it as a troubleshooting attempt, but heck if I know how to remove the extraneous one.
Also, only one of these audio drivers is active at a time, according to the output in terminal.