Re: how do you find out what your sound card is

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

hanasaki wrote:
> 
> The person that sold the system to me said its a soundblaster on board..
> there is no bios setting with any info... it worked under win 95/98
> 
> 1.how does one find out what is installed?

  if it's a PCI card chances are that lspci will provide ebough info. if
it's isa card try pnpdump.

> 2. if it is a sound blaster, what insmod will make it work?

  depends on whether you use oss or alsa. I guess alsa is preferred
these days, sooner or later it will be included in kernel instead of
oss/free (AFAIK) and it's quite stable nowadays (close to 1.0 release).

  download alsa modules (see alsa related packages) and go from there
(use lasaconf to configure it).

	erik