In a message dated: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 17:29:27 EST
Greg London said:
>Hey all,
>
>the results are in!
>
>My Handspring Visor Prism
>was able to sync to my linux machine just now.
>I am using a serial cradle, purchased separately.
>RedHat's web update was not updating my lilo.conf file
>for some reason, so I had to manually fix that. ARGH!
>I had the latest kernel installed, but lilo wasn't loading it.
Errr, why is anything web-related even touching your lilo.conf?
This is a text file, use vi or emacs, keep it simple.
>I have to run pilot-link (and therefore jpilot)
>as root. I have a permissions problem as a regular
>user in accessing /dev/ttyS0.
chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0 and be done with it. On a home workstation, and
even most corporate workstations (NOT servers!) there's no reason why
all users shouldn't have rw access to the serial ports.
>I tried fixing it with linuxconf, but I get when I try to run it, I get:
First mistake! Linuxconf is the root of all even. Any GUI which
claims to be able to help you easily configure your entire system
yet consistently overwrites files on disk with what it thinks is right
is lying and will cause more headaches than it's worth. It might do some
things okay, but it will not do any one task well. Stick with manual
editing of the text config files. That way you know exactly what gets
changed, and can easily put it back the way it was! Btw, RCS is your
friend :)
>Error message from remadmin :Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by
>server
>Error message from remadmin :Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect
>to ServerError message from remadmin :
>Error message from remadmin :Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
>
>arghh!! I haven't worked around that one yet.
Before you su to root to run anything graphical, type:
xhost + `hostname`
>also, I bought this tiny camera module that plugs into the
>Handspring. I dont think jpilot is syncing the pictures
>to Linux, since I had to install additional software in
>Windows to do a sync with the camera. I haven't confirmed
>Linux doesn't sync, though, so I'm going to poke around a bit.
"syncing" under Linux is, for the most part, restricted to the 4
default apps which come installed with PalmOS; address book,
calendar, memo pad, todo list. In order for anything on your palm to
"sync" it must, by definition of the word "sync", have something to
sync with. If you installed sw under Windows to sync the camera
module, then jpilot will not be able to sync with this sw, since
there's no non-Windows version of the sw.
That does not, however, mean you're SOL. If the images on the camera
module are stored in some usable format, jpeg, gif, etc. then using
the "Backup" feature of jpilot will copy all the data to a location
on your Linux system. The only problem I can think of is that data
stored on the Palm is in a .pdb or .prc format. This means that
you'll to find someway of extracting the image out of that.
Hopefully the camera module has some better way to store the images
and you can access them directly.
>finally, my PC's clock has been messed up and I've never been
>able to get it right, so when I do a sync, jpilot sets my Handspring
>to the PC time. arghhh!
Set your clock under Linux to be the right time using the 'date'
command. Then do:
> rm /etc/adjtime
> hwclock --systohc
> hwclock --systohc (I always do it twice for some reason :)
You should now not have a problem going forward. Though you might
want to investigate running NTP (xntpd3), especially if you have a permanent
net connection.
Hope that helps!
--
Seeya,
Paul
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