Q: After upgrading to lion, cant select HDMI sound setting
Don't know why I upgraded to lion on my Mac Mini, but I did, (lion is bad news, my opinion)
everything worked fine before the install, I could select which sound output I wanted to use, HDMI or headphones, (in sound settings).
That was before, this is now with lion.
both devices show up in the "select an out put device" box,Just like before, however when I select HDMI it will not remain there. it goes back to headphones.
I would appreciate, if you comment on this thread, that you don't add stuff that you think might work, or that you have the same problem.
Please only the solution.
Mac mini (Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Posted on Feb 29, 2012 2:57 AM
I've now recieved a reply from one of the Senior Technical Advisors at AppleCare who was kind enough to follow up with engineering.
Apparently this change was intentional in 10.7.2 to bring the behaviour of the headphone jack in line with the experience of users who have external displays connected via Thunderbolt !
See this support note; http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4113
I've replied to this advice by pointing out that this change actually removes functionality that was present in 10.7.0 / 10.7.1 and requested that the issue is esculated back to engineering for further comment..
I'll post again when I recieve the next reply.
Posted on Feb 29, 2012 3:25 AM