how to identify sound card

Howard how0909 at freeshell.org
Thu Jul 7 12:33:51 UTC 2011


  Hi, I am running Fedora 13.
I was given a computer and do not know what sound card is installed.
What is the best way to go about finding out what it is?


/etc/udev/rules.d/90-alsa-tools-firmware.rules  shows these 3 entries:

# TASCAM US-428 usb sound card.
# TASCAM US-224 usb sound card.
# TASCAM US-122 usb sound card.


This show something different:

cat /proc/asound/cards
  0 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                       HDA NVidia at 0xfe024000 irq 22

There is a sticker on the side of the box advertising "NVIDIA GeForce 
6150 SE" graphics card but will it do sound too? This has no mention of 
sound capabilities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_6_Series#GeForce_6150SE

So are either of these methods of identification reliable?

Thanks



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