Comment # 5 on bug 982998 from Takashi Iwai

(In reply to Matthew Evans from comment #3)
> whichever I configure first via YaST completes (though still no sound), and
> the second prints this error:
> 
> "The kernel module snd-hda-intel for sound support could not be loaded. This
> can be caused by incorrect module paramters, including invalid IO or IRQ
> parameters."

It's something wrong in yast2-sound module about reloading the module.
In general, it's not recommended to fiddle with the sound setting via
yast2-sound nowadays.  Just put some options in /etc/modprobe.d/* manually.

> The result is:
> 
> [   13.374977] snd_hda_intel: `' invalid for parameter `probe_mask'

Ah, then you need to pass probe_mask=-1,0x101  or so.  Instead of an empty
string, it has to be the default value, -1.