I'll be dropping newer phonon-4.3.50-based packages into kde-testing
soon. These have been in -unstable for awhile, and by all accounts,
should be better.
These include the new pulseaudio-integration done by colin
guthrie/mandriva.
Along with phonon, the f12 repo, will include a newer
pulseaudio-module-x11 package, which includes the device-manager pa
module for enhanced enumeration of pa backend devices (with it, you'll
get to see/specify the hardware pa is talking to, not just
"PulseAudio"). See also,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541419
-- Rex