I hope the following information helps. I have onboard sound and a sound card.
These are listed in my sound configuration.
My user name is a member of the audio group.

SB Audigy
Configured as sound card number 1
Driver snd-emu10k1

RV610 audio device [Radeon HD 2400 PRO]
Configured as sound card number 0
Driver snd-hda-intel

Me:~> rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-utils-1.0.16-35.1
alsa-1.0.16-39.1
alsa-firmware-1.0.16-24.1
alsa-plugins-1.0.16-57.1
alsa-oss-1.0.15-48.1
Me:~> rpm -qa | grep pulse
Me:~> rpm -q libasound2
libasound2-1.0.16-39.1
Me:~> uname -a
Linux linux-058z 2.6.25.16-0.1-pae #1 SMP 2008-08-21 00:34:25 +0200 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Me:~> cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

options snd slots=snd-hda-intel,snd-emu10k1
# 2Oa+.JTx1064b7W4:RV610 audio device [Radeon HD 2400 PRO]
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
# HJNj.zmyCPdHleeA:SB Audigy
alias snd-card-1 snd-emu10k1

I am new to opensuse and I have tested all of this hardware in ubuntu and windows xp it works, but not in opensuse. Thank you.

I have not used suse in years but can you try running

alsamixer

and seeing what alsa is using for the sound card and you may be able to set it to a different card by using

alsaconf