Fedora & Sound: an excercise in frustration

[Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray]

I am on a Fedora 7 system, running the latest kernel-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7
from updates, with a small mix of Rawhide packages thrown in. Whenever
I play a song or a movie I get a constant high frequency monotonous
note alongwith the expected soundtrack.

[root at ginger ~]# lspci
...
...
04:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio
Controller
...

[root at ginger ~]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
video                  21065  0
snd_hda_intel          24409  2
snd_hda_codec         202689  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy           7877  0
snd_seq_oss            33345  0
snd_seq_midi_event     11073  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                50353  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         11853  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            43489  0
snd_mixer_oss          19393  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                74565  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              24773  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    53189  11
snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
fw_ohci                19649  0
serio_raw              10821  0
edac_mc                27665  1 k8_edac
soundcore              11553  2 snd
fw_core                42625  1 fw_ohci
usblp                  17345  0
snd_page_alloc         13769  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
pcspkr                  7105  0
...
[root at ginger ~]#

Worth filing a bug, or am I making a mistake?

Regards,
Debarshi
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