Foreword

I use Gentoo Linux for AMD64 on Shuttle XPC SN95G5, with AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3500+. I have 1GB of 400MHz DDR Memory and a 200GB Seagate Barracuda SATA hard drive.

On this page, I put down problems I encouter with my system and solutions I have found to them. The problems may be specific for my distribution of choise or the hardware I'm using, which is why they are stated above. I hope these prove useful to someone.

Gnome logout hangs

Problem: The problem is that when I choose logout from the Actions menu in gnome-panel, nothing seems to happen. After long enough wait, the logout may trigger, but it may take several minutes. The problem eventually disappeared for no apparent reason and then after an update (emerge -uvD world) to (some parts of) gnome it reappeared.

Solution: Re-emerge libaudiofile (emerge audiofile)

Edit in GIMP stoped working in gqview

Problem: In gqview with right click on the image, you get a menu where you can select "Edit->in The Gimp". But at some point it stopped working.

Solution: With the coming of gimp-2.0 the program to invoke is renamed to gimp-remote-2.0. Configure that in Options->Editors.

Audio out of sync in gorecord when recording with Plextor PX-TV402U

Problem: When using the video capture program gorecord that comes with the Plextor SDK the audio is hopelessly out of sync after just a few minutes, every time.

Solution: Use gorecordmod, which will also give you streaming. On my system, though, the audio is so out of whack that even gorecordmod could not fix it, so I wrote my own A-V sync. You can get the patch against official SDK version 0.9.4 here. Let me know if it works for you. It should keep the audio neatly in sync, every time, with virtually no audible effect.