No sound - hda-intel: spurious response

Using pulseaudio under ubuntu karmic 9.10 with the latest updates as of September 14th, I have no sound. Totem talks about an internal flow error, and I cannot, for the life of me, get sound out of my little dell mini 10.

However, I do get a lot of kernel messages in /var/log/syslog !

When I run: $ speaker-test -twav -c2
I hear no sound, but see a ton of activity on my: $ tail -f /var/log/syslog

Here is a sample of the /var/log/syslog:
Sep 14 21:22:22 tiny kernel: [ 1414.965659] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x1, last cmd=0x10373200
Sep 14 21:22:22 tiny kernel: [ 1414.965715] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x1, last cmd=0x10373200
Sep 14 21:22:27 tiny kernel: [ 1419.944143] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x1, last cmd=0x10170503

This is my module for sound:
$ lsmod | grep "^snd "
snd 59204 19 snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device

This is my pci Audio device:
$ lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) HD Audio Controller (rev 07)

That should be it! Great, work devs!