My Gnome volume control is also inverted in Dapper. I have an Asus Z70V laptop with an "Azalia" Realtek ALC880 sound card using the hda_intel driver. All other mixers including alsamixer and KDE are correct. This was working fine in Hoary and Breezy.
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