GNOME makes a LOT of WHITE NOISE!

["Joshua S. Freeman" <jfreeman@connix.com>]

'm running stormlinux/debian potato on a sony vaio 505TR.  After a major
effort, I recently got my wavelan pcmcia card to work on this machine last
night... ('ray!!)... the thing I'm trying to figure out now:

when I choose GNOME at boot time, as soon as GNOME starts, a terrifically
annoying, continuous blast of white noise begins pouring out of the
speakers!  THis doesn't happen when I run KDE...  

any ideas on where to begin troubleshooting this noisy problem?

TIA,

J.

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