how to identify sound card

[agraham]

It should be detected automatically, if enabled in the BIOS,

Try:

# alsamixer

if not installed, do

yum -y install alsa-utils

Albert.


On 07/07/2011 01:33 PM, Howard wrote:
>    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
>