Turning the optical light on

I've seen lots of people post about the optical out light coming on accidentally, and I'm looking for a way to turn it on. I often find myself plugging headphones or audio cable into that port in the dark, and I'd like to be able to turn the optical light on to make finding the port easier. Is there any way to do this?

its software controlled, so it would be a function of the driver, for example the linux driver does let you just switch it on and off, unfortunally the mac driver does not let you do it, someone whould have to hack it, and i don't really see that happening

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