When setting up a volume or favorite, the device would best be displayed by the drive's uuid or id, rather than generic drive name. The drive name "/dev/sda2" can change after a BIOS upgrade or re-plugging a device, or even accidentally booting with a flash drive that was not removed during shutdown, which produces an error. This problem shows itself often if a favorite is set to automount. Most Linux distributions now mount disks by their uuid or id to avoid such problems. Rather than "/dev/sd??"...
Motherboard is an Asus Crosshair VI Hero with onboard audio. Operating System is openSUSE Tumbleweed. snd-hda-intel is what loads as a driver. I am able to set VLC to use specifically use alsa, and further specify the 7.1 version of the card, but VLC is the only package that has sound. Nothing else in my system can utilize the device. The alsa-info script sees the device as card 1, generic device. alsa-info.sh output can be found at: http://alsa-project.org/db/?f=2b8c4b4c6d323e46c4bf15f4ca74fef0639c91cd...