Teelinome: sorry that didn't work :(
I suggested that procedure because that is what I did some time ago when I
had some audio issues (which I then solved by completely purging pulse
audio). I needed a decent audio control applet and I installed and made
automatically executable on boot the plugin "volti" and it worked.
I have little experience with cinnamon (Mint cinnamon was my first distro
when I switched to GNU) but being that I used it a long time ago I don't
remember well the panel settings etc..
Maybe try asking in their IRC or forum or whatever they have.
