Re: [Evolution] Evolution syncing

[Craig White <craigwhite azapple com>]

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 17:13 -0500, Paul M. Bucalo wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 15:02 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 13:42 -0700, Richard Zach wrote:
> > > Someone just posted something to the gnome-pilot list which might
> > > explain the syncing problems reported by various people recently:
> > >
> > > > Oh, forgot the obvious: have you added the USB Vendor/Product ID to
> > > > the list of recognised IDs for gnome-pilot?  If you're running
> > > > gnome-pilot-2.0.12 you need to edit the devices.xml file by hand and
> > > > restart gnome-pilot.
> > > >
> > > > The Kyocera Vendor ID is 0x0c88, and the device ID for the
> > > > 7135 is 0x0021.
> > >
> > > The Palm Zire 72, for instance, isn't in
> > > my /opt/gnome/share/gnome-pilot/devices.xml
> > >
> > > Maybe that helps.
> > ----
> > instantly - and for the record... I added to my
> >
> >  <!-- Kyocera -->
> >
> >  <!-- Kyocera 7135 -->
> >  <device vendor_id="0c88" product_id="0021" />
> >
> > to
> > /usr/share/gnome-pilot/devices.xml
>
> Yo, man! You can sync! Welcome to what appears to have been an elite
> club! I only made because I'm using such old stuff. ;0) Good for you.
> Hopefully Richard's info will make all others successful, too. 
>
> On the serious side, better documentation would have prevented a lot of
> anguish and torn allegiances. This is a perfect example of what holds
> users back in Linux. Not all of us are Rocket Scientists. :0|
>
> Thanks again to Richard for providing the missing link for so many.
---
Indeed - thanks Richard

if I had known about devices.xml, I probably could have figured it out
myself - clearly, that was why I was claiming that gpilotd was deaf.

Now, if I had a way to change the 'category' of entries in a group
instead of one at a time...

;-)

Thanks

Craig