So, I went to contact Intel about reporting the problem I had as a bug, and then by the time I got to walking them through the problem, audio via optical just stopped working entirely, no matter which output was used. That was when just 30 minutes before it was working (albeit on the wrong output selection).
An hour chat later, they are going to investigate. And… I may try some more things around here over the weekend should I have a chance and the weather is poor…
