I solved the problem.It seems that the i810_audio module (the OSS driver) was loading and *conflicting* with snd-intel8x0 (the ALSA driver). snd-intel8x0 would still load... but it just didn't find anything.
I was able to prevent i810_audio from loading by renaming the i810_audio.ko to i810_audio.ko.hidden in the appropriate /lib/modules directory, but I'd like to know of a better way of preventing it from loading. Mentioning the driver name in /etc/hotplug/blacklist didn't seem to do it.
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