pulseaudio uses HDMI but no HDMI hookup

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I tried to report this as a Debian bug but my email SMTP caused problems so I will try here.

The following is the Debian bug report that would not go through.

"pulseaudio wants to use Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5600 Series] Digital
Stereo (HDMI) for Audio Output - Notifications, Music, Video Communications,
Games and Accessibility. This connection is not hooked up!

Audio Capture - Communication and Accessibility both show Internal Audio Analog
Stereo and HDA ATI SB (ALC892 Analog). Past experience shows these two produce
sound.

They do not show anywhere else except KMix displays HDA ATI SB.

When I prevent access to ~/.pulse (forbidden) then the two above show in the
complete audio setup. I have tried deleting the ~/.pulse directory but it has
no effect.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii adduser 3.113 add and remove users and groups
ii consolekit 0.4.5-1 framework for defining and trackin
ii libasound2 1.0.23-4 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libc6 2.13-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcap2 1:2.21-1 support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.12-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-10 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii libice6 2:1.0.7-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libltdl7 2.4-2 A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii libpulse0 0.9.21-4.1 PulseAudio client libraries
ii libsamplerate0 0.1.7-3 Audio sample rate conversion libra
ii libsm6 2:1.2.0-2 X11 Session Management library
ii libsndfile1 1.0.24-1 Library for reading/writing audio
ii libspeexdsp1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex extended runtime library
ii libudev0 171-3 libudev shared library
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.3-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.0-1 X11 Testing -- Record extension li
ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii udev 171-3 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.10.30-1 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii libasound2-plugins 1.0.23-2 ALSA library additional plugins
ii pulseaudio-esound-compat 0.9.21-4.1 PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii pulseaudio-module-x11 0.9.21-4.1 X11 module for PulseAudio sound se

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn paman <none> (no description available)
pn paprefs <none> (no description available)
pn pavucontrol <none> (no description available)
pn pavumeter <none> (no description available)
ii pulseaudio-utils 0.9.21-4.1 Command line tools for the PulseAu

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/pulseaudio changed:
PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1
DISALLOW_MODULE_LOADING=1

/etc/pulse/default.pa changed:
.nofail
load-sample-dir-lazy /usr/share/sounds/LinuxMint/stereo
.fail
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore
load-module module-augment-properties
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect
.else
load-module module-detect
.endif
.ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
.endif
.ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
.endif
load-module module-native-protocol-unix
.ifexists module-gconf.so
.nofail
load-module module-gconf
.fail
.endif
load-module module-default-device-restore
load-module module-rescue-streams
load-module module-always-sink
load-module module-intended-roles
load-module module-suspend-on-idle
load-module module-console-kit
load-module module-position-event-sounds"

Hope this helps. Anything that I am missing then please contact me.