(In reply to Chris Wong from comment #9) > ls -l /etc/modules-load.d > total 4 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14 May 26 08:30 yast.conf > > cat /etc/modules-load.d/yast.conf > snd-hda-intel That's it. This must be an old leftover config that breaks things. Remove this file, and recreate initrd (e.g. just run mkinitrd as root), then reboot / retest.