Hard lockup pasting into /bin/ed.

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209]

Did you specifically try ed?


-- 
           Bill in Denver

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:

> I have the same machine using gentoo, but I only have 48 lines by 140
> characters, I think and I don't have any problems pasting in any app I
> have used -- I wonder if you have something which is actually a higher
> resolution than the board will actually take or something.  Also, I am
> not using the normal framebuffer driver but one which comes with gentoo
> and is supposed to be better called udesafb.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209 <wacker at octothorp.org> 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?
>>
>>
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>>           Bill in Denver
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