Comment 10 for bug 590465

Hi, I've just confirmed this bug on a Macbook 2,1. I think a good compromise would be the optical functionality exposed as a "device" in the volume settings, so users could manually switch to optical output if they chose. This sounds like it would also be useful for various other non-Macbook machines. Does anyone know what would be involved in doing this, and if it's possible?

I thought there was something wrong with my Macbook's headphone port because the light is stuck on, and I've been digging around with a toothpick in the port all day (this is standard procedure for this happening in OSX, the TOSLINK sensor in the port often gets bent and stuck.) It'd be good to address this so people don't think something's wrong, especially because the analogue headphone port doesn't currently work after install without unmuting a device in alsamixer.