Comment 1 for bug 696401

Update:

My keyboard volume indicator and level works again, as expected. Also in order to work correctly there's no need to run gnome-keyboard-properties. I get the standard elegant KDE volume on-screen indicator.

The bad news is I'm not sure what exactly fixed it.

Among the things I changed since the report are several standard karmic upgrades, and perhaps more meaningfully a removal of an old package called 'hotkeys' which is not Ubuntu supported (multiverse repo?)

Anyway, I think this should be closed as invalid since everything is working fine again with the current set of karmic standard packages.