How can I know whether a sound card is present on my system or not?

Question

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 Gnome classic. Obviously playing the music shows there is a sound card present. But I've read that there might be multiple sound cards present on a single system.

How can I know how many sound cards are present on my system? Also, how can I know which all they are?

saji89 · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-19T04:16:47.857

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To detect your soundcard, use sudo aplay -l from the Terminal.

Courtesy:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting

edited Nov 19 '13 at 04:16

answered May 22 '12 at 11:21

saji89

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 22 '12 at 11:13

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Type in a terminal:

 hwinfo | grep sound.card_id

answered May 22 '12 at 11:13

jasmines

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hwinfo is not avaiable in the default Ubuntu installation. It has to be manually installed by using sudo apt-get install hwinfo – saji89 May 24 '12 at 17:16
can't even find it in the repos – 842Mono Aug 15 '16 at 11:29
what version of Ubuntu? – jasmines Aug 25 '16 at 20:41
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hwinfo is a nice tool but this grep outputs nothing – 842Mono Jun 29 '17 at 06:26
sudo hwinfo | grep sound – cem Jan 20 '23 at 09:38

How can I know whether a sound card is present on my system or not?

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