I have a Dell Dimension 8250. I try to locate my soundcard, but it says it cannot find it. Any ideas?

As root try using:
lspci -v
And look for the multimedia section, you can usually narrow it down by typing:
lspci -v | grep Multimedia

Then post up what you get.

Cool

According to the page below, there is a choice of sound cards available:

http://www.dell.com/us/en/bsd/produc...dimen_8250.htm

I have the Sound Blaster Live! Digital sound card. When I ran the command this pit out:

02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X
Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 1003
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 3
I/O ports at ec40 [size=32]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

02:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] Input device con
troller
Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 1003
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
I/O ports at ec68 [size=8]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2