Palm handhelds *nearly* working again in Fedora: a plea for some (HAL) help

[Kevin Page]

With impeccable timing my patch to upstream hal-info has been merged.
I'll take this as implicit acceptance! This gives me more confidence
we're doing the right thing, but any further review would be welcome.

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 08:10 -0500, David Hollis wrote:
> Since pilot-link-0.12.2-17.fc8 had been installed in early Feb and 
> blacklisted visor, I found that I had 0% success.

Yeah, IMHO this release shouldn't have been pushed to updates (though I
don't think it made it through intentionally). Although Palm sync was
already broken "out of the box" for F8 and earlier, this release also
broke it for anyone who'd been bothered to configure it for themselves.
Worse still, the HAL/PolKit configuration it shipped with wasn't
functional. Sorry.

> Going through the bugzilla and
> changing over to libusb and planting the corrected HAL/PolicyKit files
> got me going.  Now I no longer need the udev rules, or any fancy perm
> files.  It does just work.

That's great to hear! What model Palm are you using?

> On the downer side, gpilotd seems to enjoy
> crapping out when syncing memos.  Restarting it and syncing again lets
> everything sync properly.  I haven't dug into whats causing that just
> yet since I was happy to at least get a complete sync.

I haven't braved gpilotd for many years. Some possible leads?
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-pilot-list/2007-March/msg00007.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-pilot-list/2007-April/msg00001.html
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201167

cheers,

kev.