strange sound question

[dep]

this one is kinda weird.

due to a complex set of circumstances, i put together a machine today 
that i intend to use. it's built on a gigabyte motherboard which has 
a realtek alc650 sound chip. i downloaded, built, and installed the 
alsa drivers for it, and by brute-force editing of /etc/modules.conf 
i got it to load. driver name is snd-via82xx.o, and of courtse it is 
recognized neither by suse's yast2 nor the alsa stuff shipped with 
suse 7.3 -- yes, when 8.2 arrives next week, i'll install it, but in 
my experience suse doesn't quite get it right until at least .2. 
anyway. the problem -- i think -- has to do with the fact that as 
initially installed the drivers have their volume set to 0. alsaconf 
doesn't recognize the driver. neither does alsamixer.

somewhere there is a file that stores these things. anybody know what 
it is, so i can go in and edit it?

thanks!
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