Sound Detection

[Yamakasi]

hi,

Does it exist any tool to probe my sound card?

Thanks

[Xinos]

You can look inside of /proc/pci and it will list all pci devices that the kernel has found in your system. If you are lucky it will list your sound card then you can go to the alsa website and find what module you need to use. If that doesn't work as far as I know you have to do it the old fashioned way and pull the card out of your box and find the model. I believe you can also use the lspci -v command instead of looking directly in the /proc/pci file. Let me know if you have any luck. Good luck and cheers.
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[Cassini]

You don't need a special tool to configure a soundcard.
You need to figure out what kind of chipset your soundcard is using, if you are using some kind of 5.1 or something like that you will probable need drivers from the manufacturer..and I cant help you on that one..

but..

Now you know the chipset you need to recompile a kernel, and compile a support for your soundcard in the kernel. If you don't know how to compile a kernel, please read Kernel-HOWTO.

Now.
You have finished compileing your kernel, go to /dev and:

chmod 666 dsp
chmod 666 mixer

You will have to be logged in as root to be able to do that.

Now..you should be able to play music in your computer..this is what you need to to normally.

Hope it helped.

Cassini
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[mksoft]

You can also emerge discover and disover-data. The to detect the audio chipset, try running (as root):

[biroed]