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Description of problem:  Pulseaudio does not seem to be enumerating all of the HDMI audio outputs on my system.  The audio channel is connected to ALSA hw:1,7 but I cannot seem to configure pulse to use that sink.

This prevents use of audio over HDMI in my case.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pulseaudio-0.9.21-14.el6_3


How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. connect HDMI output
2. try to configure an audio output that is not the first HDMI audio bus
3. fail
  
Actual results:
unable to get HDMI audio

Expected results:
Being able to get HDMI audio

Additional info:

It appears this was discussed on the pulseaudio list:
http://www.mail-archive.com/pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de/msg07433.html

The folks at Arch have some clear documentation on this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#HDMI_output_configuration

Nvidia has simply documented that this doesn't work right now:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/gpu-hdmi-audio-document/gpu-hdmi-audio.html#_issues_in_pulseaudio

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1095750 ***