Media buttons on 17.10 thinkpad

I just spent what felt like an eternity restoring a working Ubuntu on my w530. One of the things that took the longest was getting the media (VOLUP/VOLDOWN/MUTE) buttons working. In the end, clearing my migrated ~/.config/pulse, installing swh-plugins, and rebooting did the trick.

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