Can you hear me now?

I've been using Ubuntu for a long time on my laptop at work, and had just recently installed the F11 Beta over this, since that's what I've been using at home and I prefer Fedora. I ended up switching back after a couple days to the latest Ubuntu release over this because audio was messed up in Fedora.

In my case, I'm using an older Macbook Pro that has some sort of headphone detection problem. When headphones are plugged in, the volume on the front speakers are reduced, but not all of the way. This means I can't listen to music or do anything else audio-related since it's distracting for everyone else nearby. The solution I've been using up until now is to just mute the front speaker device; this works great because I had headphones, so I don't care about the fact that the speakers don't work. Unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to do this with the new Pulseaudio tool in Fedora. The alsamixer tool was also displaying to me a single output device, without knobs to change the front speaker/headphone volumes indepently.

I know this is kind of a corner case, and if the hardware just worked it wouldn't have been a problem. But as we all know, the hardware doesn't always just work. If the Fedora developers end up changing this, I have Fedora installed on another partition, so I might try switching back...