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From: Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh@ftml.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Hard lockup pasting into /bin/ed.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:55:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091002155500.GA14185@rx.localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910020939440.8015@wb2flw.octothorp.org>

Bill,

My system uses the Intel 945 motherboard, and I paste without problems
into ed on it. My screen is 48 by 128, which I achieve by appending
vga=773 to the boot parameters list.  You might try adding that value
to yours if a better solution doesn't appear.

Chuck


On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 09:46:24AM -0600, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>      I'm ancient enough to love the "ed" editor.  I have a Dell
> Latitude D820 laptop with one of the intel 915 series video chips.
> When I loaded Fedora 11, by having someone actually do the graphical
> installation for me, <grrrrr>, I noticed that I had a 75 by 160
> screen instead of the usual 24 by 80 one.  Now, whenever I paste
> anything into ed from Speakup, I lock up.  This always happens.  I
> haven't tried this on any other machines.
> 
>      Has anyone seen anything similar?
> 
> 
> -- 
>           Bill in Denver
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 William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209
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