Re: Handspring Visor USB and Evolution (James Gallagher)

[Marcel Turcotte <turcotte site uottawa ca>]

Hi all,

I used to be able to sync my visor and evolution more or less easily;
sometimes I had to kill gpilotd once, but nowadays I have to restart
the deamon up 7 or 8 times, I was wondering if anybody had found
a way to circumvent those problems; I'll certainly try to run
gpilotd manually as suggested below.  Here is my config:

pilot-link-0.9.5-ximian.2
gnome-pilot-0.1.65-1.ximian.2
gnome-pilot-conduits-0.9-1.ximian.1
evolution-1.0.8-1.ximian.1

Modules loaded:

visor                  10400   6 
usbserial              18336   0  [visor]
usb-uhci               21604   0  (unused)
usbcore                51104   1  [visor usbserial usb-uhci]

I run RH 7.2 on an IBM A20p laptop.

Cheers,
M.

 >> There sure is, but its not necessarily for the faint of heart. As
 >> of last week you needed to download the source for and compile the
 >> following packages in this order:

 >> 1. pilot-link 0.11.4
 >> 2. gnome-pilot 0.1.66
 >> 3. gnome-pilot-conduits-0.10
 >> 4. evolution 1.0.8

 >> I know binaries for a lot of these packages were in process when I
 >> did all this so they may be out by now. AFAIK the first evo binary
 >> slated to support this is 1.1.2beta.

 >> A lot of people have had troubles with building gnome-pilot due to
 >> configure leaving a flag out of the makefile, there is info on
 >> that in an earlier thread in the mailing list. And you don't know
 >> the meaning of DEPENDENCY HELL until you try and compile
 >> evolution, but they do include detailed instructions on how to do
 >> it, so I guess we can't complain.

 >> I compiled all the above packages and have evolution syncing to my
 >> USB Visor Edge under Mandrake 8.2

 >I have mine syncing using the earlier versions of these packages
 >from red carpet, but not exactly the way I'd like to. I have to
 >start gpilotd from a terminal, then go to my visor and do the sync
 >thing, then kill gpilotd. If I try to sync a second time, or used
 >gpilotd as a daemon (they way it's intended to be run), syncing
 >fails.

 >If I get the various packages/versions you list above, can I use
 >gpilotd as a daemon, or will I still have to run it, one shot mode,
 >from the command line?

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