Hard lockup pasting into /bin/ed.

covici at ccs.covici.com covici at ccs.covici.com
Fri Oct 2 19:05:23 EDT 2009


No, but I can check that -- not sure I even have ed.  Also, I gave the
wrong name for my framebuffer driver, uvesafb is the correct name.

William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209 <wacker at octothorp.org> wrote:

> 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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