On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > I have two issues with my machine - sound and video. My sound card > is not recognized at all (I think it's on the mobo, but I'm not sure > how to identify it), and I have an ATI dual video card with two > screens, but both show the same output, so I'm guessing that my > CentOS does not know what it is, either (they show up as > unidentified in the config file). What I do is # get plain-language pci listing lspci # get numeric only pci listing lspci -n Match the plain listing with the numeric listing to get the raw PCI ID of the device in question, e.g., # plain language 01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02) # numeric 01:0c.0 0200: 8086:100e (rev 02) Then head to the Linux PCI ID repo and search for the specific ID ($3 to awk :-), in this case, "8086:100e": http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/ In this case, 8086 is an Intel vendor ID and 100e specifies a '82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller' device. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> www.madboa.com