ArsGeek

If you’re running Ubuntu (or other Debian based distros including the Mother Distro) there’s a fairly easy command line way to check what sound cards you have available and then to set them as your default.

We’ll open up a CLI first, by going to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal.

Once there, type the following to list your sound cards:

sudo asoundconf list

This will spit out a list of all available sound cards.  Being on a Lenovo laptop, mine simply spits out this:

Names of available sound cards:
Intel

If you’ve got onboard and a sound card or multiple options, you’ll see them there.

If you’d like to choose one as your default, type this:

sudo asoundconf set-default-card Intel

I’ve used Intel as an example – you’d change that to whatever card you want as your default card.

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