[Alsa-user] AD1986A problems

[Tim J. <ti...@wh...>]

I have been trying to get the sound working on my
Asus A8N-VM MB
the chip is a AD1986A, which according to posts on google and on the  
nvnews website should be supported by alsa 1.0.11 and the 2.6.17 kernel.
Using the Alsa method I install the driver and the utils package and  
then run alsaconf, this advises me that I have a hda-intel Nvidia  
MCP-51 High Definition Audio (rev 2a) which I select and then let the  
alsa util modify the alsa file in modules.d/alsa
when the alsaconf tries to run the init script it errors with hda- 
intel: no codecs found!
I have tried forcing the model by appending the line options snd-hda- 
intel model=AD1986A
again I get the error above.
below is my alsa file
Code:
#ALSA portion
         alias char-major-116 snd
         alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
# module options should go here
options snd-hda-intel model=AD1986A

# OSS/Free portion

# card #1

# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF version 1.0.11 ---
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
  and this is the output from lspci -vv
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio  
(rev a2)
         Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device cb84
         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-  
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
         Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast  
 >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
         Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 209
         Region 0: Memory at febd8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)  
[size=16K]
         Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME 
(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
         Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+  
Queue=0/0 Enable-
                 Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
         Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping


Any and all help would be appreciated

Regards

Tim