Comment 1 for bug 575934

I was able to solve the problem by modifying /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
Because I have two soundcards installed I added the following lines:

options snd-emu10k1 index=0
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias snd-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
options snd-hda-intel index=1

Now the cards seem to get initialized correctly.