i'm gonna go ahead and pick this up from here.  my information is the same as the op.  i'm using a Chaintech 9cjs zenith mobo with Envy24-based sound.  pentium 4, 3gigs of memory.

$ grep "^Codec\|^Vendor Id\|^Subsystem Id\|^Revision Id" /proc/asound/card*/*codec*{,/*} | grep -B2 -A1 $(lspci -nv | grep -A1 0403 | grep Subsystem | sed 's/://g' | awk '{ print $2 }')
grep: /proc/asound/card*/*codec*: No such file or directory
grep: /proc/asound/card*/*codec*/*: No such file or directory
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `grep --help' for more information.

$ cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundcards ---





here's what i got from the alsa script.

!!################################
!!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.58
!!################################

!!Script ran on: Sun Oct 18 03:03:28 UTC 2009


!!Linux Distribution
!!------------------

Ubuntu 9.04 \n \l DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.04"


!!DMI Information
!!---------------

Manufacturer:       
Product Name:       


!!Kernel Information
!!------------------

Kernel release:    2.6.28-15-generic
Operating System:  GNU/Linux
Architecture:      i686
Processor:         unknown
SMP Enabled:       Yes


!!ALSA Version
!!------------

Driver version:     1.0.18
Library version:    1.0.18
Utilities version:  1.0.18


!!Loaded ALSA modules
!!-------------------



!!Sound Servers on this system
!!----------------------------

No sound servers found.


!!Soundcards recognised by ALSA
!!-----------------------------

--- no soundcards ---


!!PCI Soundcards installed in the system
!!--------------------------------------

03:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. VT1720/24 [Envy24PT/HT] PCI Multi-Channel Audio Controller (rev 01)


!!Advanced information - PCI Vendor/Device/Susbsystem ID's
!!--------------------------------------------------------

03:02.0 0401: 1412:1724 (rev 01)
	Control: I/O  Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-


!!Modprobe options (Sound related)
!!--------------------------------

snd-atiixp-modem: index=-2
snd-intel8x0m: index=-2
snd-via82xx-modem: index=-2
snd-usb-audio: index=-2
snd-usb-us122l: index=-2
snd-usb-usx2y: index=-2
snd-usb-caiaq: index=-2
snd-cmipci: mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388
snd-pcsp: index=-2


!!Loaded sound module options
!!--------------------------


!!ALSA Device nodes
!!-----------------

crw-rw----  1 root audio 116,  1 Oct 17 21:24 /dev/snd/seq
crw-rw----  1 root audio 116, 33 Oct 17 21:24 /dev/snd/timer


!!Aplay/Arecord output
!!------------

APLAY

aplay: device_list:217: no soundcards found...

ARECORD

arecord: device_list:217: no soundcards found...

!!Amixer output
!!-------------


!!Alsactl output
!!-------------

--startcollapse--
--endcollapse--


!!All Loaded Modules
!!------------------

Module
ppdev
bridge
stp
bnep
vboxnetflt
vboxdrv
video
output
input_polldev
lp
parport
snd_ice1724
snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx
snd_ac97_codec
ac97_bus
snd_ak4xxx_adda
snd_ak4114
snd_pcm_oss
snd_mixer_oss
snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc
snd_pt2258
snd_i2c
snd_seq_oss
snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi
snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq
snd_timer
snd_seq_device
i82875p_edac
iTCO_wdt
iTCO_vendor_support
edac_core
snd
nvidia
soundcore
intel_agp
psmouse
pcspkr
agpgart
serio_raw
shpchp
usbhid
ohci1394
8139too
8139cp
mii
ieee1394
e1000
fbcon
tileblit
font
bitblit
softcursor
compcache
lzo_decompress
lzo_compress
tlsf


!!ALSA/HDA dmesg
!!------------------