Re: What could be missing?

On 2/18/11, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:

> I cloned the larger system (where NEdit works fine) on its own
> partition on the larger machine and started removing the packages,
> hoping to recreate the faulty functionality in NEdit so as to pinpoint
> the missing items.
> Well, I got to the point where I have an almost exact copy of the
> system within which NEdit doesn't work (but in this instance, located
> on the main desktop machine) and here - lo and behold! - NEdit works
> without a flaw! So, what gives? Is it a hardware-related type of
> problem??

It does seem to be hardware-related! I did a couple more tests that
seem to point to this conclusion. To sum it up, I have NEdit 5.5
working perfectly fine on a desktop computer with a small installation
of Slackware 12.2. It works perfectly fine there. On the other hand,
NEdit did not work on my laptop's earlier installation, which was
exactly that same Slackware installation that works well on the
desktop minus several packages. I thought it was a matter of missing
software. I was wrong.

The tests I did: First of all, in order to pinpoint which missing
package was causing this, I started uninstalling packages in sets of
3-4 at a time from the working installation on the desktop machine
while testing NEdit each time until I got an almost exact copy of the
installation on the laptop. This was described in my last message.
Nevertheless, NEdit worked just fine there.

Next, today I transferred the installation, AS IS, from the laptop's
hard drive to the desktop's hard drive. The same EXACT filesystem, and
now NEdit worked on the desktop PERFECTLY. This tells me it is
definitely hardware-related.

As a last and probably unnecessary test, but just to make extra sure,
I transferred the much larger original filesystem (the one with BOTH
SETS of packages installed) from the desktop to a USB key and booted
this filesystem on the laptop via the USB port. NEdit, in this last
test, exhibited the same malfunctioning as it did  with the smaller
installation (originally on the laptop) even though all the files that
made it work on the desktop were there.

So you see, Aaron, it cannot be font-related. Within exactly the same
filesystem (same fonts!) NEdit works just fine on one machine and
malfunctions on the other.

The only thing I can think of is that the drivers Xorg loads in the
context of the laptop's hardware are somehow incompatible with NEdit.
What else could it be? This is the strangest thing....I've never seen
anything like it and did not think it a possibility.
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