Sound Driver Loading -------------------- Since openSUSE-11.0, all sound driver modules are loaded via udev. The setups in /etc/sysconfig/hardware/* that have been used for 10.0 and later systems are no longer used and simply ignored. Module Configuration on Linux 2.6 Kernels ----------------------------------------- The configuration of ALSA modules is written to /etc/modprobe.d/sound file via YaST. Don't modify /etc/modprobe.conf directly, since this file may be overwritten when the package is updated. ALSACONF -------- The alsaconf script included in alsa-utils package is only for older distros in general. It still might work in some cases, but avoid it unless you are really sure why you use it.