Comment 13 for bug 84505

I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 running with Fiesty and have the same problems and I did a fresh install. I wanted to re-iterate what others have said to be clear about what the problem is really (at least what the problem is for me).

1. GGrigsby says above that the problem is "The Master volume seems to control the two main speakers (located on the front edge) and the Master Mono controls the subwoofer (located on the bottom of the unit)." This is what the problem is IMHO for the Dell 9300 Inspiron. You cannot use the multi-media keys to control the volume but you can manually do it via setting the three sliders mentioned by GGrisby. So if someone could fix the sound driver in relation to this problem or provide a work-around that uses the multimedia keys that would be great!

2. Shinoku (et. al.) mention the same problem but I think Shinoku (et. al.) must be using the line-out on the laptop with external speakers. The problem Shinoku says is the that three sliders need to be bonded together via the ctrl key in the sound settings. The solution to use the ctrl key to select all three sliders works perfectly for me when using the line-out on my laptop going to external speakers. But it does not solve the problem of using the internal laptop speakers as mentioned in #1 of my post. But I am grateful anyway since this does work when using external speakers.

So to sum up my comments if I am using the line-out on my laptop and I use the solution mentioned by Shinoku all my multimedia keys on the front panel work with no problem. If I remove the line-out cable from the laptop and use the internal laptop speakers then I have the problem mentioned by GGrigsby and I have to manually fiddle with the sliders in the sound panel. I know the priority of this bug is low but I hope someone can come up with a fix or workaround.

Thanks.