diff --git a/inxi b/inxi
index 0236e52..14a9cf7 100755
--- a/inxi
+++ b/inxi
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 ########################################################################
 ####  Script Name: inxi
-####  version: 0.5.7
+####  version: 0.5.8
 ####  Date: November 10 2008
 ########################################################################
 ####  inxi is a fork of infobash, the original bash sys info script by locsmif
@@ -886,6 +886,15 @@ get_audio_data()
 		gsub(/ [ \t]+/," ",$NF)
 		print $NF
 	}' ) )
+
+	# c=gensub( /^ *vendor: (.+) +model: (.+) +rev:.*$/, "\\2", "g", a[i] )
+	# in case of failure of first check do this instead
+	if [[ ${#A_AUDIO_DATA[@]} -eq 0 && -f /proc/asound/cards ]];then
+		A_AUDIO_DATA=( $( gawk -F ']: ' '{
+			card=gensub( /^(.+)( - )(.+)$/, "\\3", 1, $2 )
+			print card
+		}'  /proc/asound/cards ) )
+	fi
 	IFS="$ORIGINAL_IFS"
 
 	# handle cases where card detection fails, like in PS3, where lspci gives no output, or headless boxes..