I've just got a new 5.1 surround setup and decided to take advantage of my imac's optical out connector with the new setup. I connected it and it sounded great, but now the system volume is permanently disabled in tiger. it's stuck on full volume and i can only mute it but nothing in between! Is this normal? If so i don't think i'll be keeping the optical connection and will have to revert back to analogue which seems like such a waste.
Has anyone else managed to connect through the optical connection and still have the volume control active? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers.
Sunil