On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 11:18 +0100, Matt Davey wrote: > Hi Adam, > > On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 18:36 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm running Debian lenny (testing) with pilot-link 0.12.3-4 and > > gnome-pilot 2.0.15-2.1. Sometime in the past 3-4 weeks (don't know > > exactly what upgrade), sync stopped working. I plug in my Treo 700, hit > > sync, and nothing happens. None of my old tricks involving timing a > > gpilotd restart or continue with the sync work (tried everything from 10 > > secs before to 10 secs after at 1 sec intervals). And nothing shows up > > in .xsession-errors when I sync, it's as if gpilotd doesn't know > > anything is going on. > > [snip] > > > Any ideas on what could be wrong with my setup? > > Hmm. One possibility is that HAL has been updated (see thread from > Frederic Crozat from March 21st last). > > You might be able to check this by suspending hald and restarting > gpilotd. gpilotd should fall back to polling /proc for detection of USB > devices.
Yes! That made it work. Thank you. I'll file a bug noting this patch. Oh wait, there's a more recent amd64 .deb NMU which disables HAL (2.0.15-2.2). That might fix the problem reported [1] but the better long-term fix is Frederic's patch, right? [1] http://bugs.debian.org/441652 Thanks again, -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/ _______________________________________________ gnome-pilot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-pilot-list
