Although I can't offer any help, I wanted to say that I'm having the exact same problem. /proc/asound/cards just says "no soundcards". All modules load without error.
Kernel 2.6.5-mm3, ALSA 1.0.3, au8830 soundcard
Eric U wrote: > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
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