Comment 2 for bug 268949

I am facing the same issue in Ubuntu Inrepid. I have a Volume mute, up and down keys in my keyboard, in addition to having a Fn+Esc=Mute, Fn+F2=Vol Up and Fn+F1=Vol Down key combination as well.

When playing some media in a player, be it Rhythmbox or Totem, I could use either of it to reduce the Volume as in the volume provided by the Volume/Sound applet in the notification area as well. But now, when I use these buttons I still get a Volume applet popup, but this is not anyway relating to the notification area's Volume applet. As a result, when I press the keyboard keys though the popup shows volume to be changing, there is no actual change in the Master volume. Thus my keyboard volume buttons are actually of no use in altering the volume. I had to use the notification area volume applet every time I want to change the volume.

Am attaching my lspci -vvnn output to the bug report. Am not sure which package does the sound/volume applet falls into. Please let me know if it requires additional information.