Please describe the problem:
On my Audigy soundcard using alsa-{drivers,lib,utils}-1.0.12 in Gentoo, gnome-volume-control fails to tell playback levels from the recording levels, and they all end up in the Playback panel.

Since the Audigy has quite a lot of mixer levels available both for recording and playback (that have the exact same name: PCM, Line, Bass, Treble, ...), this bug renders the gnome mixer very hard to use. Again, when trying to hide the levels in the prefs panel, I don't know which ones are playback and recording.

And since alsamixer is able to set them apart and display everything properly, Zaheer told me to file this bug against Gstreamer.

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Does this happen every time?


Other information:
here are the versions of gstreamer elements currently installed on my system :

[I--] [ ~] media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.9 (0.10)
[I--] [  ] media-libs/gst-plugins-good-0.10.3 (0.10)
[I--] [  ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.3 (0.10)
[I--] [ ~] media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.9 (0.10)
[I--] [  ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-a52dec-0.10.3 (0.10)
[I--] [ ~] media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.9 (0.10)
[I--] [ ~] media-plugins/gst-plugins-cdparanoia-0.10.8 (0.10)
[I--] [ ~] media-plugins/gst-plugins-faad-0.10.1 (0.10)
[I--] [ ~] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ffmpeg-0.10.1-r1 (0.10)
[I--] [  ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac-0.10.3 (0.10)
[I--] [  ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-gconf-0.10.3 (0.10)
[I--] [ ~] media-plugins/gst-plugins-gnomevfs-0.10.8 (0.10)
[I--] [  ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.10.3 (0.10)
[I--] [  ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-mpeg2dec-0.10.3 (0.10)
[I--] [ ~] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ogg-0.10.9 (0.10)
[I--] [ ~] media-plugins/gst-plugins-pango-0.10.9 (0.10)
[I--] [ ~] media-plugins/gst-plugins-theora-0.10.9 (0.10)
[I--] [ ~] media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis-0.10.9 (0.10)
[I--] [ ~] media-plugins/gst-plugins-x-0.10.9 (0.10)
[I--] [ ~] media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo-0.10.9 (0.10)