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From: "John P.Davis" <zhen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDA Guide
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:54:41
Message-Id: 20021210145337.1e789ad8.zhen@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDA Guide by Per-Erik Westerberg
1 On 10 Dec 2002 20:33:32 +0100
2 Per-Erik Westerberg <pew@××××××.net> wrote:
3
4 > I am currently using Evolution as email-client and it used to work to
5 > sync the Palm with Evolution's addressbook, now nothing happens when I
6 > press the sync-button. Since I was using RedHat before I guess that I
7 > need to configure something (or use a good "USE=..." when compiling
8 > Evolution) to make it work :-).
9 >
10 > BR / Per-Erik
11 >
12 > On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 20:19, John P.Davis wrote:
13 > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:50:19 -0500
14 > > Bob Thomas <gtg663h@×××××××××××.edu> wrote:
15 > >
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19 > > > Alan wrote:
20 > > > | On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:45:24AM -0800, Alan wrote:
21 > > > |
22 > > > |>An addition to this would be how to set up a non-usb pilot for the nifty
23 > > > |>automated devfsd EXECUTE tricks. I realize that this would be very
24 > > > |>similiar of course :) Also, a note on the right way to restart devfsd
25 > > > |>would be nice. I tried to kill -HUP it, but no go, and there is no
26 > > > |>init.d script. My devfsd.conf had the following added to try to execute
27 > > > |>the jpilot sync for a palm V (already working with jpilot) on /dev/ttyS0
28 > > > |>
29 > > > |>REGISTER ^tts PERMISSIONS 0.0 0777
30 > > > |>REGISTER ^tts/0 EXECUTE /bin/su alan -c
31 > > > "/usr/bin/jpilot -sync"
32 > > > |>
33 > > > |>I'm not sure what I'm missing here, but having some simple things like
34 > > > |>that in the docs would help the non-usb palm'ers like me :)
35 > > > |
36 > > > |
37 > > > | Ok, my mistake, sent off the email a bit too soon :) But I do now have
38 > > > | some more sensical comments :) It should be /usr/bin/jpilot-sync, not
39 > > > | /usr/bin/jpilot -sync
40 > > > |
41 > > > | I'm also wondering if it is possible to have this sort of trickery for
42 > > > | serial devices, as as soon as I run devfsd /dev (after killing it) it
43 > > > | immediately starts the jpilot-sync program. I'm wondering if it is a
44 > > > | USB feature that allows this to be controlled?
45 > > > |
46 > > > | Alan the sheepish
47 > > > |
48 > > >
49 > > > Isn't a serial port always registered, though? The USB trick only works
50 > > > because /dev/usb/tts/1 only appears when you hit the hotsync button on
51 > > > your palm.
52 > > >
53 > > > [Alan: I forgot to CC to group]
54 > > >
55 > > > - --
56 > > > Robert Thomas
57 > > > Georgia Institute of Technology
58 > > > Email: gtg663h@×××××××××××.edu
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71 > > >
72 > > I belive this is correct. There would have to be some sort of monitoring script that would monitor the serial device. Any dibs on writing it?
73 > >
74 > > //ZhEN
75 > >
76 > > --
77 > > John P. Davis
78 > > Gentoo Linux Documentation Developer
79 > > http://www.gentoo.org
80 > > #gentoo-doc on irc.freenode.net
81 >
82 >
83 >
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86 >
87 Recompile evolution with "pda" in your USE vars.
88
89 //ZhEN
90
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92 John P. Davis
93 Gentoo Linux Documentation Developer
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