I would like to check sound card’s detailed information on my linux system. How do I get the details of sound card under CentOs 7/6.5 or RHEL 7/6.5 system? How to get souce card manufacture information on CentOs linux or RHEL linux ? This post will guide how to check the different properties of sound card.
CentOS/RHEL Check Manufacture Information Of Sound card
To get Sound Card manufacture information for Sound device in current linux system, issue the following command:
lspci -v | grep -i audio
outputs:
[root@devops ~]# lspci -v | grep -i audio 00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
CentOS/RHEL Get All Audio Devices On Your system
To get all device Names attached to sound card, you can use cat command to view “/proc/asound/devices” file,or running aplay command with “–list-devices” to get all sound device information, type:
cat /proc/asound/devices
or
aplay --list-devices
outputs:
[root@devops ~]# cat /proc/asound/devices 1: : sequencer 2: [ 0- 1]: digital audio capture 3: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback 4: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture 5: [ 0] : control 33: : timer [root@devops ~]# aplay --list-devices **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: I82801AAICH [Intel 82801AA-ICH], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel 82801AA-ICH] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
CentOS/RHEL List kernel Module For Sound Card
You can use the below two commands to check all kernel module related to sound card:
cat /proc/asound/modules| grep snd
Or
lsmod | grep snd
outputs:
[root@devops ~]# cat /proc/asound/modules | grep snd 0 snd_intel8x0 [root@devops ~]# lsmod | grep snd snd_intel8x0 38153 3 snd_ac97_codec 130236 1 snd_intel8x0 ac97_bus 12730 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_seq 61519 0 snd_seq_device 14497 1 snd_seq snd_pcm 97511 2 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0 snd_page_alloc 18710 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm snd_timer 29482 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd 74645 12 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_seq_device soundcore 15047 1 snd