Q: Who is heard?
Right now Im SuSE 8.0, and as far as I know its the only distro that natively support the Audigy cards . They came well before some of the new distros, so I am starting to wonder if some of these distributions are to get to it .
Re:Partially, at least, I'm saying that it bugs me that I have to recompile my kernel to support a sound card that's been on the market for a year…
It bugs me that companies don't release drivers for their products for Linux, or atleast hardware specs so someone else can. And that'll only change if you voice your need/want for the drivers/specs to the companies like Creative. Or you could always help with the development of the Linux drivers yourself if you it's not moving fast enough for you…
Re:In my case both SuSE 8.0 and Mandrake 8.2 both supported my Audigy out-the-box. I didn't have to install any additional drivers.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Partially, at least, I'm saying that it bugs me that I have to recompile my kernel to support a sound card that's been on the market for a year…
Then you should keep bugging the company until they release things that work 100%, and ASAP.
Either that or write your own drivers 
Re:Partially, at least, I'm saying that it bugs me that I have to recompile my kernel to support a sound card that's been on the market for a year…
Re:You can add Audigy support to whatever distro you prefer. Get ALSA (http://www.alsa-project.org) or RML's emu10k1 driver (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/emu10k1).
Both of these require you to have the source for the kernel you are running. The latter requires you to patch the kernel source. Both are pretty self-explanatory if you ask me.
The ALSA driver has more features, but I couldn't get my rear speakers working with it.