It seems like I'm not the first one to investigate this pulseaudio problem.
There seem to have been at least two clever guys who dealt with it earlier:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...ne/010256.html
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp...o.general/9797

Do the names of the people who opened these discussions mean something to anybody here? I'd like to know if there was any progress I might have missed.

And there is an old Debian bug report dealing not with the same but a similar protocol version problem:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458556

The proposed solution was to either use or at least report an earlier protocol version depending on the server version.
There's even a patch to do that which is already implemented but unfortunately it's hard-coded to check for version 12:
http://www.pulseaudio.org/attachment...nnection.patch

If I get that right we'd need this check to be variable so we could pass some sort of parameter to pulseaudio in Easy Debian to use an older version that could communicate with the broken Maemo pulseaudio.
Can somebody please have a look at the source code and the patch and tell me if my assumption is right that this patch should even be useful to solve the problem I'm facing?