Sound card, how can I see what it is?

[netstrider]

I have a MSI 925X Neo Platinum motherboard and I have read two reviews with specifications and apparently the board has:

'Azalia' 7.1 High Definition Audio, the inclusion of a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

<< Sound card. However is there a command I can use to figure this out?

I am trying to get my sound working, I've installed the bad, good, base and dvd etc plugins from gstreamer, I've installed all the xine plugins and/or libraries, I've read on several debian and ubuntu wiki's about restricted formats and I've installed all those codecs/plugins/libs (whatever you want to call them :P ), I've installed w32codecs, I've installed libdvdcss2 ... No sound at all. This was from a netinstall ( Kernel 2.6.18 ) and it's odd to me that Ubuntu dapper detects my soundcard and Debian 4.0 not..?

When I try "alsaconf" it's an unknown command. I have done apt-cache search alsa, but am not sure which of the hundreds of alsa packages to install...

Help is appreciated

[daark.child]

You can find out what chipset your sound card has, by running the command

$/sbin/lspci | grep -i audio

Alsaconf is part of the alsa-utils package.