Re: Handpring Visor connects from commandline but not gui

[Neil West <nwest cox net>]

David,
Thanks for the help yesterday with the pilot synching.  I got it working
great.  I got an email from Dagmar d'Surreal suggesting that I was being
thin skinned.  I defended my position I took about your replies but told
him that I would re-read your posts and determine if I was indeed being
thin skinned.  I re-read them and it appears that I think that he was
right.  I think that I was being thin skinned and owe you an apology. 
On re-reading the thread, I feel that I could have mis-read you.  The
comments certainly didn't warrant any concern on my part.  Sorry if I
was being thin-skinned or a wimp about the whole thing.  

Thanks again for the help

Neil 

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 09:37, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> >  Unfortunately, I can only get the id as root.
> 
> 	I *SERIOUSLY* hope you're not running gnome/Evolution as root. 
> 
> >   ERROR: Permission denied
> >    Unable to bind to port '/dev/ttyUSB1'
> >    Please use --help for more information
> 
> 	Ah, an old version of pilot-link. Change the permissions on
> /dev/ttyUSB1 and try again as a normal user who can read and write to
> that port. 
> 
> > I have read the --help and have not found anything that helps.  I am a
> > little scared about changing the permissions on /dev/ttyUSB1.  Any help
> > would be grateful.
> 
> >  got it working only when I run evolution from root.
> 
> 	You're scared of changing permissions on a device, but you have no
> problem running X and Evolution and gnome as root!? Boggle. 
> 
> 	Change the permissions to 0666 or greater and try that. If you had been
> running the current version of pilot-link, it would have suggested this
> as an option for the error you received. 
> 
> 
> d.
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Neil West <nwest cox net>