No Digital Out Only

I have no Digital Out Only Box. It does not appear where it is shown in the help file. How can I set this setting without the box?

ok. this is going to sound super weird, but i just right now had to fix this.
1. i reset the PRAM (not sure that had anything to do with anything)
2. then i reset the SMC
3. THEN i reset the SMC w/ headphones plugged in...
then, after searching all over and reading the post below....i just plugged/unplugged my headphones a few times...and it worked....very strange, and i'd still like a REAL answer...but that worked...here you go;
I tried all those software resets, but the solution lay elsewhere.  My problem (like that apparently of many others) was caused by the audio out port thinking I was using a digital audio out feature.  I could find no software override for what is fundamentally a hardware problem - a small switch flipped inside my Macbook's audio port. Something in the shape of my headphone's connector seems to have tripped a small switch in the audio port.
So all I did was take a very small device like a paperclip, safety pin, or toothpick, and push (fairly gently) on the 6 or 7'oclock position of the audio out port.  That's all it took.  If you're playing music, you can just keep trying until you hear something again.
I'm not clear whether this is entirely an Apple design issue, or whether some of the newfangled audio connections being used just don't play well with Apple's ports.  My issue repeats if I insert the suspect connector back in the port, and then I have to reset it again.  It may be that if you use a different connector, it doesn't get tripped - worth trying different headphones/audio out cables to see if there's one that isn't a problem if this becomes for you (like me) a potential chronic bother.

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