hello all,
thought my soundcard problem was a conflict between on board audio and
soundblaster. disabled onboard with jumper setting per mbo manual, rh 8.0
launched kudzu during boot, and emoved on board config. i did dmesg
here's the emu10k1 output:

Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.19, 09:46:52 Feb 24 2003
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:09.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0
emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 6 model 0x8027 found, IO at 0xd000-0xd01f, IRQ 11
ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: 0x5452:0x4123 (TriTech TR A5)

and no mention of on board so its not the problem, but still no sound.

help with next step, please? thanks.

2 things - have you tried sndconfig to set the card up?

Also, it says sharing IRQ11 - are there any BIOS settings to allow you to manually set the IRQs. Sharing looks like a problem.