Comment 16 for bug 51537

Hey Ryan,

Yeah. That's what my patch does. When you push the volume buttons it checks the hardware volume found at /proc/acpi/ibm/volume and displays it on the screen while doing nothing to the software volume.

Aside from not looking as nice as the gnome display, the other bad thing with the tpb package is that it polls the hardware which keeps the laptop from entering lower power states.