Comment 8 for bug 571987

Same problem here (VT1708S); both suggestions from the Ubuntu Wiki mentioned above don't work. After deleting ~/.pulse/default.pa (i.e., resetting everything to default), trying to change the volume by media keys or the panel applet has no effect at all anymore. Seems there is something severely broken on Lucid, at least for VT1708S in combination with alsa and pulse. *sigh*