Hi Lars, Is the awe program you are using mine? If so I just checked editing a file on my 2.6.10 system and it worked just fine. Are you using a standard Fedora kernel or one built for speakup? I am not using Fedora myself but debian still, that shouldn't make a difference. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list