Solved audio is not working in Antix26

[lazy_lain]

hi

not newbie in linux but i think its questions thread so i post here tbh

before i install antix i tried runit system and its work nicely, but for some reason its freezed so i swith to s6-66 and found the audio its not working, also its frozen

so to not underrated this test i split the partition and use runit system and its work pretty

but after i played a youtube video the audio is not working
i try to search and 90% for solutions suggust alsamixer and i unmuted it and nots work

so i try to know my system with this command inxi -Fxz
System:
Kernel: 6.6.119-antix.1-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 14.2.0
Desktop: IceWM v: 4.0.0 Distro: antiX-26_x64-full Stephen Kapos 21 March
2026 base: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: BIOSTAR model: H61MLV3 v: 7.0
serial: <superuser required> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 4.6.5
date: 07/25/2013
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Pentium G620 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2594 min/max: 1600/2600 cores: 1: 2594 2: 2594
bogomips: 10376
Flags-basic: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] vendor: Micro-Star MSI N210
driver: nouveau v: kernel arch: Tesla bus-ID: 01:00.0 temp: 44.0 C
Display: server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nouveau,swrast platforms:
active: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.7-2 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: NVA8
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Biostar Microtech Intl Corp driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Device-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI N210
Geforce 210 PCIe driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
API: ALSA v: k6.6.119-antix.1-amd64-smp status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: active
Server-2: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: off (using pipewire-pulse)
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Biostar
Microtech Intl Corp driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 8.22 GiB (2.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HDT721032SLA360 size: 298.09 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 22.96 GiB used: 8.22 GiB (35.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 1024 MiB used: 354.1 MiB (34.6%)
file: /swap/swap
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 67.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 44.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 2 GiB available: 1.9 GiB used: 1.47 GiB (77.4%)
Processes: 215 Uptime: 35m Init: runit runlevel: 2
Packages: 2037 Compilers: gcc: 14.2.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 inxi: 3.3.39

so i installed pulseaudio libraries and type pulseaudio --start
reusults of audio output
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Biostar Microtech Intl Corp driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Device-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI N210
Geforce 210 PCIe driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
API: ALSA v: k6.6.119-antix.1-amd64-smp status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: active
Server-2: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active

i will still search for solutions so any advice?

 

[osprey]

Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Biostar Microtech Intl Corp driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Device-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI N210
Geforce 210 PCIe driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
API: ALSA v: k6.6.119-antix.1-amd64-smp status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: active
SAudio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Biostar Microtech Intl Corp driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Device-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI N210
Geforce 210 PCIe driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
API: ALSA v: k6.6.119-antix.1-amd64-smp status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: active
Server-2: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active

i will still search for solutions so any advice?

There are two audio cards shown, Device-1 and Device-2.
One can see the same result with the following command. The command and output shown are from a computer here which also has two audio outputs:

[~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
                      HDA Intel PCH at 0x400a110000 irq 160
 1 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0x72080000 irq 17

As a preliminary step in investigating the sound, one can check which card the system is using as the default by running the following:

[~]$ aplay -L | grep -i -A2 sysdefault
sysdefault:CARD=PCH
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC897 Analog
    Default Audio Device

The default on this computer is the intel card. If by chance on your system if it's the nvidia card, you can change that by opening alsamixer and hitting F6. There you can select the card which is to be the default. In this case, the intel card is the one to select because the other one looks to be on the old Geforce 210 video card.

To check that pipewire is running, run the following which, in the output shown, shows that it's running:

[~]$ ps aux | grep pipewire
user        1216  0.0  0.0  30460 13156 ?        S<sl 08:10   0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire
user         1222  0.0  0.0  10832  5076 ?        Ss   08:10   0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire -c filter-chain.conf
user         1223  0.0  0.0  26248  9252 ?        S<sl 08:10   0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse
user        24195  0.0  0.0   6544  2368 pts/10   S+   10:26   0:00 grep --color=auto pipewire

One also needs wireplumber running with pipewire, so one can check that:

[~]$ ps aux | grep wireplumber
user         1221  0.0  0.2 535988 34404 ?        S<sl 08:10   0:00 /usr/bin/wireplumber
user        24224  0.0  0.0   6544  2444 pts/10   S+   10:26   0:00 grep --color=auto wireplumber

One doesn't need pulseaudio if pipewire and wireplumber are installed.
To use pulseaudio utilities in pipewire, one can install the packages: pulseaudio-utils and pipewire-pulse. The above is just to see if the basics are set up.

 

[lazy_lain]

i dont know why but its fixed by itself mybe i dont reboot it after allowing pulseaudio

i will marked it solved and moving to the next problem