I had the exact same symptoms with a similar card (880 instead of the 780). In my case, the problem was caused by speech-dispatcher, which was loading pulseaudio before my user and locking the sound card. Removing speech- dispatcher resolved the problem.
-- Soren Stoutner so...@stoutner.com 623-262-6169
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