On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 09:04 +0000, John Madden wrote:
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>> On (31/10/08 01:32), Gerard Cunningham said:
> > The manuals for the machine give me no information on wh kind of
sound
> > card I have, so I'm at a loss as to where to go from here. I assume
I
> > need to physically look under the hood and take note of a product ID
> > somewhere, unless there's a way to make the os look for the sound
card.
> >
> The command you're looking for here is 'lspci' - open a terminal and
run
> it. It gives details of any PCI hardware in your computer, without
> having to "look under the hood". For more information, try 'lspci -h'
> and 'man lspci' at the command prompt.
>> - --
The command
lspci -v
gives the following (as well as lots of non-relevant stuff about SB
controllers etc)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Fujitsu Siemens Computers Device 1057
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
I/O ports at 2400 [size=256]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=64]
Memory at d0080c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at d0080800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
So can anyone translate the above into a suggestion for what I should do
next?
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