FC6, NVidia and Nedit

[Thorsten Haude]

Hi,

* Jim Wilson wrote (2006-11-23 13:11):
>I don't know what possessed me, but the other day I decided to upgrade
>my system from Fedora five to six.  (What an idiot!)  After spending a
>half a day fixing other things that were broken, I discovered my
>treasured editor was FUBAR.  I hope someone can help me begin to chase
>down the problem (which likely does *not* involve nedit).

So your treasured editor is, what, Emacs?


>The symptoms resemble using memcpy() instead of memmove() for an
>overlapping move.  Here are screenshots:
>
>http://www.afn.org/~wilson/foo1.gif - a freshly opened source file.
>http://www.afn.org/~wilson/foo1.gif - after scrolling down one line and
>later back one line (using the cursor keys).

Come on, people would pay money if this was a Photoshop filter.

Just to clear that up: This is only a visual effect? The documents are
as you expect them to be?


>The problem occurs with both the Fedora binary and the version 5.5
>Nedit.org one.

Any chance of binary mixup? Could you send us 'nedit -V' for both
versions?


>Has anyone seen this problem before?  Does nedit do some experimentation
>to discover the best way to scroll that might explain different results
>between nvidia.ko and nv.ko?

Nope, but one of the toolkits might. (Or both, as it seems.)


Thorsten                                                Radiohead: Let Down
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