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Hello Karl,
I had a similar problem for 4-5 months of not having any sound in Linux, because I couldn't get the
XFI sound card drivers from Creative's website running. Just recently I decided to check on the OSS progress in their development of a driver for my card, and I came up lucky.
Here's a link to the main webpage I checked: http://opensource.creative.com/soundcard.html
And here's a link to the drivers themselves: http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi

I installed these on Debian. I'm not familiar with Mandriva, but hopefully you can get it up and running. I'd recommend checking around for an rpm installer, deb installer, or using the .tar.bz2 package, since I don't see a Mandriva listing there. Also - My soundcard is a XFI XtremeMusic, which isn't an onboard
card, but hopefully that won't be an issue.
One thing I noticed with these drivers, is a pause when loading/switching between music files, but they're not finished yet, and I'm happy with the sound quality I get.
Also, alot of my gnome desktop sound related tools don't work with these drivers, I'm not sure how to
configure them right, but you might get a similar outcome. The PDF that is available on the download page has a list of tools you can use to modify settings and stuff, also - programs like XMMS work fine for me.

Good luck,
Pinto
[Modified by: pinto on April 19, 2008 08:13 AM]