Finally .... Palm pilot now synchronises

[Sharon Kimble]

On 19/07/05, Christopher A. Williams <chrisw01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 03:31 -0400, fedora at jlee.fastmail.fm wrote:
> > On Monday 18 July 2005 16:42, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> >
> > > I hope it helps others. Its a cobbling togethor of other folks ideas from
> > > this list, but it works!
> >
> > Is it sync'ing using kpilot, gnome-pilot, or just pilot-link?  I've been able
> > to get pilot-link to sync for a while, but gnome-pilot and kpilot have been
> > crashing.
> 
> ...And after setting this up, gnome-pilot continues to die on my system.
> These changes are convenient though in that:
> 
> 1) They do set up permissions properly for syncing (solving a set of
> udev issues)
> 
> 2) Set up the /dev/pilot symlink to whatever ttyUSB port udev creates
> 
> Since the default is point to /dev/pilot for syncing, this is a nice
> little addition. I heard that the crashes in kpilot and gnome-pilot were
> upstream bugs that are yet to be fixed. Anyone have status on these -
> gnome-pilot in particular?
> 
Chris.
Another variable here is that I use kde from the kde-redhat
repository, and I tend to install books to read on my palm by just
doing a 'fast-sync'. Doing a 'full-sync' it does crash but I haven't
worked out where and what the problem is yet.

Sharon.