sound levels reset to 0 on reboot

I have an Asus K8V Deluxe running 9.1 (32bit), Alsa 1.0.5. Suse identifies the sound card as a A7600 motherboard with an ADI AD1980 sound card. Sound works great but everytime the system is rebooted the VIA DXS levels are reset to 0. If I set the levels in YAST to 100 everything works until I reboot and the VIA DXS levels go back to 0. gamix shows the levels as 0 and once I open the sound module in YAST the levels in gamix for VIA DXS jump to 100 and sound works. Where are the default levels stored that are read on boot up. I have grep'ed but haven't found it yet. Thanks, gabriel