Comment # 12 on bug 1163046 from Takashi Iwai

You mixed up too many different things.  Some reports are really about bugs
that are seen in the recent updates (e.g. Carbon X1 requiring the new UCM stuff
with the latest PA git version), some are invalid usage, and some are
misunderstanding.

In your case, it's rather about the misunderstanding.
- In general, PA is recommended for HDMI access on a desktop system -- if
available
- The auto-start of PA is disabled for root as default due to the system
security matters
- If non-PA access is required, the special PCM device (hdmi:xxx) must be used
for accessing to HDMI or DP.  The direct access with hw:xxx or plughw:xxx, and
with default:xxx wouldn't work.
- Also for non-PA access, the card indexing may require manual adjustment; it's
nothing new, rather the system setup issue.
- YaST sound module may help setting up the system configuration with the
module options, but nothing more than that.  It cannot know about the above
things, and it's rather an obsoleted feature to be dropped in future.

So, if you found any other real bug to be fixed in openSUSE *packaging*, please
open another bug.  For other issues, please report to upstream.  Thanks.