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 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (97% of Full) My web site: www.hallenbeck.ftml.net Audio editor, weblog: edway.wordpress.com -------- I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne