J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:


(He'd probably have to open up the laptop to find that, which is usually
a tedious process. Unless you can point him at a utility that will
analyse/interrogate peripheral chips electronically.)

Device Manager :
Sound,video,and game controllers
SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio
Properties
Details
Device Instance ID
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B

http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids

11d4 Analog Devices
(table incomplete)

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An example of a Sigmatel...

FUNC_01&VEN_8384&DEV_76A0

8384 SigmaTel
(no table at all)

It's not looking like that pci.ids file is going to help.

Paul