Hi, > At a guess & I ain't an expert, I would have thought that a > look at the source code for alsaconf, kudzu &/ discover or > even soundconfig or whatever would be enlightening here. Or > even just the man pages: > Kudzu detects the current hardware, and checks it against > ? ? ? ?a ?database ?stored ?in ?/etc/sysconfig/hwconf. > discover provides an extensible hardware detection and > reporting inter- face. ?Hardware ?information is stored in > an XML data format and can be retrieved across the network. > Try /usr/share/list.xml. Well, I'm not really a programmer, but I have of course read alsaconf (still I didn't understand everything) and yesterday I downloaded soundconfig from the knoppix distribution. > If you can come up with something > that works better than alsaconf on Debian (i.e. works ;-) I > for one will be interested in your results. Hehe, most probably I will give up ;-) . > Not quite in > the same league, but also very useful is > http://alsa.opensrc.org/?aadebug for simple alsa > diagnostics. OK, I'll have a look at it. Thanks for your thouhts, and BTW I liked f_f__f_f ;-) . Best regards ce