(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #5) > The culprit is likely /etc/modules-load.d/yast.conf that contains an > unnecessary entry that interferes loading the proper sound module. Remove > that file and recreate initrd. > > This must come from the old installation where yast2-sound has put such a > config wrongly. This was mostly harmless in the past because of a (kind of) > bug in dracut and a hackish configuration in alsa.rpm. Now these got fixed, > and the problem surfaced suddenly. I have no file named yast.conf in /etc/modules-load.d/. However, there is a file in /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf showing the correct setup: options snd slots=snd-hda-intel # u1Nb.SjXCD70s323:82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel