Re: What could be missing?

On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 02:18:23 -0500, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

Yes, with those tests it does seem very likely that you are encountering  
an X.org driver issue, or some other low-level, hardware related problem.

> 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.

I have seen one strangeness related to Motif and X.org that may or may not  
be related. In fact, I expect that they are not related, but I will  
mention them here just for completeness' sake. On version 13.1, the X.org  
version does not play well with Motif applications like Mwm. I found a  
patch that fixes the issue, but I have not seen this problem on previous  
versions of Slackware, which makes me believe that this is not in any way  
related.

http://my.opera.com/arcfide/blog/2010/07/04/motif-and-slackware-13-1

That is all that I have. I am as stumped as you at this point. The next  
thing I would try would be to replace lesstif by OpenMotif on your  
installation, and build an NEdit yourself from current CVS.

	Aaron W. Hsu

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