Re: z22 not syncing anymore

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct debian org>]

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 22:30 +0200, Tom Billiet wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Adam C Powell IV
> Time: 07-09-07 21:57 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 21:08 +0200, Tom Billiet wrote:
> >   
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have a problem that my palm z22 won't sync anymore with gnome-pilot.
> > > It used to work, but for some reason an update broke it...
> > >     
> > 
> > Update which OS/distro, from what version to what other?
> >   
> I'm using archlinux, which has a "rolling release" system. That means
> that it has always the latest packages in the current repository. This
> also means that I can't answer to this question, I get continuous
> upgrades... It can be a kernel upgrade, it can be something else...

Okay, then what versions of the kernel, pilot-link, gnome-pilot?
 
> > > I've been trying to find the problem, but I really can't find it. I
> > > also tried to switch from the visor kernel module (that's what I used
> > > to use and worked) to libusb, but also no progress. I think the
> > > problem is somewhere that the z22 makes 2 usb connections (USB0 and
> > > USB1), and at the moment you hit the sync button he creates USB3 and
> > > USB4 in favor of USB0 and USB1, gnome-pilot get's very confused of
> > > this behavior.
> > > So this is what I get with libusb. I start gpilotd, connect palm, give
> > > it some seconds and hit the sync button (I always needed to give it a
> > > couple of seconds, otherwise it wouldn't work)
> > >     
> > 
> > This sounds vaguely like the behavior with my Treo 700p.  With this
> > device I cannot get visor to work at all.
> >   
> Visor used to work, I have never been able to use libusb with the z22.
> Now none is working anymore.
> > With libusb, I need to control the timing very carefully: if I hit
> > hotsync on the Palm two to five seconds before the computer starts
> > listening, it works.  Less than two seconds before, or more than about
> > ten seconds before (never checked this timing precisely), or Palm after
> > computer, and it fails.  And by "fails" the gpilotd or pilot-xfer goes
> > into some kind of infinite loop as you described and needs to be killed.
> > So try a few different timings before/after and see if anything works.
> >   
> Different timings do not give any better result, it stays the same...
> > It's easiest to check this by pausing the gpilotd daemon (kill it if
> > it's infinite-looping), and check the timing of something simple like
> > "pilot-xfer -p usb: -l".
> > 
> > Also, make sure it's not reloading the visor module, which would
> > interfere with libusb.
> > 
> > I have no idea what's actually happening which makes it fail/succeed...
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> > -Adam
> >   
> Thanks for your help, but so far no luck.

Sorry to hear that.

Just to verify: before and after trying libusb, you did "lsmod" and it
did not include visor?

-Adam
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