Comment 14 for bug 51537

This is still an issue in Hardy's beta.

In the new gnome, the volume keys are handled in the gnome-settings-daemon package. Attached is a patch for the package which works similarly to the one I did for gutsy. It'd be nice if it, or something similar, got incorporated.

With the patch, adding the key /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/hwvol with the string value 'thinkpad' makes the OSD show the hardware volume and doesn't change the software volume.