Re: [Evolution] Strange sync behaviour in Evo.

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le samedi 25 août 2007 à 23:03 +1000, andrewlgreig netscape net a
écrit :
> On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 11:38 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > Le jeudi 23 août 2007 à 01:56 +1000, andrewlgreig netscape net a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > > I am unable to sync my Palm device with Evo, because when I activate
> > > gpilotd I get a warning which continues to add to itself.  There is no
> > > text visible in the warning and I have attached a screenshot which shows
> > > that it is up to its 25th iteration.  I have loaded evolution-debug into
> > > my system but will it pick up this problem.  What would you like me to
> > > do so that you can obtain the best info on this problem?
> > >
> > > System is P3 866MHz 512 RAM Mandriva 2007 Spring (2007.1)
> >
> > I noticed recently gnome-pilot package in Mandriva 2007 Spring didn't
> > have hal support enabling, causing strange detection problems.
> >
> > Could you try installing test package gnome-pilot 2.0.15-2mdv2007.1
> > which should be available on mirrors today in 2007.1/main/testing
> > repository ?
> >
> > PS : pilot bug like this one should probably be better answered on
> > gnome-pilot mailing list.
>
> Frederic,
>
> Merci beaucoup, merci, merci.
> Thank you thankyou.
> I pulled the file off the mirrors today, and loaded it.  I tried a few
> things and then a message popped up suggesting that I was trying to sync
> the old way using /dev/pilot and the visor module was not loaded.
> Perhaps I needed to use usb: instead. Well I tried usb: and usb:0 and
> usb:1 but no good.  So I ran #modprobe visor, switched the port
> to /dev/pilot and tried again.  Still no good, so I fired up jpilot, and
> it work on /dev/pilot.  So then I performed $ evolution --force-shutdown
> and restarted evo. Checked my Synch options and voila, it all worked.
>
> I suppose that the dynamic visor script did not create the /dev/pilot
> because there wa no visor module loaded.  There was the other day, but
> that was another day.

Since Mandriva 2007.0, we have switched from the old "visor" module to a
module-less way (using libusb) to communicate with Palm PDA. Which is
why there is no /dev/pilot and it is normal. It is even documented in
2007.0 release notes :
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2007/Notes#PalmOS_based_PDAs

-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
Mandriva