Volume Control on Satellite Pro A200 with Ubunutu 7.10

I have a Satellite Pro A200GE-1F9 which I have recently made dual boot with Vista and Ubuntu 7.10. This is the first time I have used Linux and most things are going well so far.
However, the volume control (a scroll wheel on the front of the laptop) is not controlling the volume correctly with Ubuntu, instead of increasing the volume smoothly as with Vista it increases in jumps of an 1/8th of maximum volume, the on-screen volume control is still smooth. I believe this is at least partly due to the change from a hardware volume wheel, as with all the past Toshiba's I have used, to a software based version. This controls the system volume and turns continuously, not stopping at the minimum or maximum volumes.
Does anyone know of a way to change this jumping volume change to a smooth one?
Thanks for any help

Hi there,
since no one here has any clue nor drivers nor any information about the driver support from toshiba, no one will be able to give you some useful information.
Did you already googled and checked the ubuntu forums? I think that will bring you nearer to the source instead of here.
So just begin asking in the ubuntu forums because I think that someone is out there which perhaps has the same problem like you.
Hopefully hes some kind of programmer. ;)
Greets

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