Mitenkäs sen äänikortin mallin saa tietoonsa avunpyyntöä varten? 
Vanhastaan muistelen jotain modprobea tjsp, mutta ei se taida olla se:
man modprobe
modprobe intelligently adds or removes a module from the Linux kernel
Google löysi tämän foorumin multimedia-osiosta pari hyödyllistä 
käskyä, mitkä kertovat seuraavaa:
$ aplay -l
**** Luettelo PLAYBACK laitteista ****
kortti 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], laite 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
  Alalaitteet: 1/1
  Alalaite #0: subdevice #0
kortti 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], laite 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 - IEC958]
  Alalaitteet: 1/1
  Alalaite #0: subdevice #0
$ hwinfo --sound
21: PCI 1f.5: 0401 Multimedia audio controller                  
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_24d5
  Unique ID: W60f.Gpw6SvtFY3D
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.5
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:1f.5
  Hardware Class: sound
  Model: "Intel 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x24d5 "82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
  SubDevice: pci 0x80f3 "P4P800 Mainboard"
  Revision: 0x02
  Driver: "Intel ICH"
  Driver Modules: "snd_intel8x0"
  I/O Ports: 0xd000-0xd0ff (rw)
  I/O Ports: 0xd400-0xd43f (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xf6fff800-0xf6fff9ff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xf6fff400-0xf6fff4ff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 17 (2861 events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d000024D5sv00001043sd000080F3bc04sc01i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: snd_intel8x0 is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_intel8x0"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown