Re: [Evolution] Sony Clie no longer recognized by gpilotd

[Stephen Witkop <switk yahoo com>]

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 10:19, Ron Hauptfleisch wrote:
> I have a Clie SJ22 and I am running Evo 1.4.3 under RH 8.  I can make
> my Clie work only by doing the following: 
>      1. Tools->Pilot Settings.    This seems to prime gpilotd. 
>      2. Sync the Clie.  It will fail, but don't interrupt it or you
>         will have to do this step over. 
>      3. Sync the Clie.  This time it will work.
> This behavior totally repeatable, 100% of the time.
>
> The Clie also behaved this way under the previous version of
> Evolution.

I got this behavior under RH8 also. I think it had something to do with
the kernel not loading the visor module until you press the hotsync
button. If I did a `modprobe visor` before trying to sync it would work
the first time.

> On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 06:38, Stephen Witkop wrote: 
> > On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 16:41, Richard Zach wrote:
> > > I'm having a weird problem where my Clie NR70 is no longer recognized by
> > > gpilotd.  It all worked before I upgraded to Evo 1.4.3, but maybe
> > > something else broke in the last two weeks.  pilot-xfer works fine,
> > > syslog reports the Clie when I press the hotsync button, gpilotd is
> > > "watching the cradle" but just doesn't do anything when I hotsync.  The
> > > pilot setup applet also can't get the SyncID and username from the
> > > pilot.
> >
> > Sounds like the same problem I have (see my earlier post). Try starting
> > gpilotd after you press the hotsync button, that worked for me.
>
> -- 
>
> Ron Hauptfleisch <hops foobox net>
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Stephen Witkop <switk yahoo com>