need assistance with configuring sound

[Joseph Anthony de los Santos]

hi,

My soundcard has been successfully enabled thru isapnp.conf, and I have
loaded all modules for sound thru modconf (sound, soundcore, soundlow)
 my question is do I still have to load sb module to make sound work or
do I still have to recompile my kernel? I am using creative soundblaster
pnp 16.
when I try to verfiy my soundcard thru cat /dev/sndstat or
procinfo..it´s not
there. I dont understand why. please help,  I am using potato. (kernel
ver 2.2.13).