2007 and kpilot

aerogate · 10-09-2006, 05:40 PM

Hi there, loving Mandriva 2007, sorted out any problems I had apart from one remaining problem, that is I can no longer hotsync kontact via kpilot.

Has the /dev/usb system changed?

kpilot has always been set to /dev/ttyusb0, and always worked from 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 2006 but now in 2007 it no longer will sync.

Any info appreciated,

Mike

aerogate · 10-10-2006, 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aerogate

Hi there, loving Mandriva 2007, sorted out any problems I had apart from one remaining problem, that is I can no longer hotsync kontact via kpilot.

Has the /dev/usb system changed?

kpilot has always been set to /dev/ttyusb0, and always worked from 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 2006 but now in 2007 it no longer will sync.

Any info appreciated,

Mike

Interesting, I no longer have /dev/ttyusb or /dev/usb have they been changed?

ar_howard · 10-22-2006, 06:44 AM

Hi there,

The solution is stated in the Mandriva 2007 Release notes .. change the device to be "usb:<port>"

Cheers,
Allan.

aerogate · 10-22-2006, 07:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ar_howard

Hi there,

The solution is stated in the Mandriva 2007 Release notes .. change the device to be "usb:<port>"

Cheers,
Allan.

Thanks Allan

elyk1212 · 12-01-2006, 09:48 PM

Hi, can you explain further, please? I took a look through dmesg while attempting connect and received:

Code:

usb 2-1.2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 17
usb 2-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 2-1.2: USB disconnect, address 17

I tried a hack by doing a 'modprobe visor' as suggested on the release page, and it sync'ed one time. However, now every time I try to change kpilot settings it hangs on me and never recovers (and it will not sync again). I hate new releases

elyk1212 · 12-01-2006, 10:09 PM

Ok hahaha, this is crazy. I can sync, but I cannot get the kpilot interface to come up. If I do try to use the Kpilot GUI interface, it will freeze, and all furthers syncs are impossible (for that invocation). HA, but get this, if I look in the task manager there are 2 kpilot gui processes trying to run, if I cancel one a mess of windows try to pop up (given by the application panel on bottom) and resolve to one that asks me if I would like to cancel the KpilotDaemon. I say no, then I am able to use the original Kpilot gui. This is the craziest bug I have ever seen.

Maybe something to do with the setting I have "start kpilot on login". I will post any findings.

LOL, someone needs to look into this. I am sure KDE has released a fix... (probably anyhow)

jib2 · 12-02-2006, 04:37 AM

KPilot in 2007 is badly broken.
We asked for an update but we're still waiting...
See this bug report

I hope someone in Mdv KDE team is taking care of it...

elyk1212 · 12-02-2006, 12:44 PM

Holy Crizap, that's a lot of errata!

http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/vie...inux2007Errata

Well, thanks for the heads up. My upgrade to 2007 was a mistake, I actually was just doing a urpmi --auto-select from 2006 and POW, I am in BETA hell! lol Oh well, could be worse. When I transitioned to Mandrake 2005 (10.2 I think) I received a semi-cooker release, that was much worse! Would only boot X programs 2/3s of the time.

I think the 'current' link in updates packages should only be relinked to a new release when it is stable. I only care about stable releases. This would avoid about 90% of my issues

BTW, I have heard of a fix in which the kpilot and pilot-link were installed from latest stable sources into Mandriva (manually) and it functioned just fine. This is why I am assuming KDE has already fixed this problem (if it even is on their end, I do not know for sure, however)

elyk1212 · 01-17-2007, 05:55 PM

Hey, did anyone see this. It explains a lot, but no real conclusion on solution

http://www.nabble.com/Kpilot:-Proble...-t2923106.html

jib2 · 01-18-2007, 01:31 AM

I tried kpilot from Mdv-cooker; it's broken too.
Finally, compiling kpilot from svn (and pilot-link 0.12.1 which is required) worked for me.

elyk1212 · 02-11-2007, 11:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jib2

I tried kpilot from Mdv-cooker; it's broken too.
Finally, compiling kpilot from svn (and pilot-link 0.12.1 which is required) worked for me.

May I ask, are you using the visor module with the device: /dev/ttyUSB* or are you using the suggested device " USB: " method from mandriva docs? I heard the visor method can cause huge data loss issues when syncing. Please let me know.

BTW, what version off the SVN did you end up getting? I just want to make sure if subversion is updated, that I get the same build you are using.

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

jib2 · 02-12-2007, 02:57 AM

My Palm is an old Vx with a serial craddle so i hadn't to struggle with usb...
But the experience of many users on the Mdv french forum is that you have to use the visor module (usb: doesn't work) ;
they had to run

Code:

modprobe visor
modprobe usbserial

(or add the modules in /etc/modprobe.preload)
and use /dev/ttyUSB1 (for some people, it was ttyUSB0) as a device, instead of /dev/pilot.
I haven't heard of any data loss with the svn release.

The source code is updated quite often on svn so i don't think you can find the same build i used (rev. 618187). But the changes should be only minor ones.