On Fri, 8 Mar 2013 20:05:27 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > I'm about to try switch to older kernel and see if I get > sound there... Yep, I get optical out sound on kernel-3.7.9-205.fc18.x86_64, but not on kernel-3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64, so I guess it is time to file a bug (or see if there already is one).