diff -Nurd debian/asoundconf debian.new/asoundconf
--- debian/asoundconf	2006-02-18 11:33:22.000000000 -0600
+++ debian.new/asoundconf	2006-02-18 11:35:04.000000000 -0600
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 asoundconf is-active
 asoundconf get|delete PARAMETER
 asoundconf set PARAMETER VALUE
+asoundconf list
 '''
 
 
@@ -189,6 +190,22 @@
     except IOError:
         return False
 
+def list():
+	'''Get card names from /proc/asound/cards'''
+	cardspath = "/proc/asound/cards"
+	if not os.path.exists(cardspath):
+		return False
+	procfile = open(cardspath,"rb")
+	cardline = re.compile('^\d+\s*\[')
+	card_lines = []
+	lines = procfile.readlines()
+	for l in lines:
+		if cardline.match(l):
+			card_lines.append(re.sub(r'^\d+\s*\[(\w+)\s*\].+','\\1',l))
+	print "Names of available sound cards:"
+	for cardname in card_lines:
+		print cardname.strip()
+	return True
 
 def delete(prmtr):
     '''Delete the given parameter.
@@ -293,6 +310,9 @@
 ## main
 ##
 
+if sys.argv[1] == 'list':
+	exit_code(list())
+
 if len(sys.argv) < 2 or sys.argv[1] == '--help' or sys.argv[1] == '-h':
         help()
         sys.exit(0)
diff -Nurd debian/asoundconf.1 debian.new/asoundconf.1
--- debian/asoundconf.1	2006-02-18 11:33:22.000000000 -0600
+++ debian.new/asoundconf.1	2006-02-18 11:35:05.000000000 -0600
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 \fBasoundconf\fR \fBget\fR|\fBdelete\fR \fIPARAMETER\fR
 .PP
 \fBasoundconf\fR \fBset\fR \fIPARAMETER\fR \fIVALUE\fR
+.PP
+\fBasoundconf\fR \fBlist\fR
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B asoundconf
 configures the ALSA library for the user.