On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 13:08 -0400, Robert Locke wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:49 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > > On Thursday, Aug 4th 2005 at 08:24 -0400, quoth Rodolfo Alc�r: > > > > =>Palm pilot, by the moment, cannot sync apparently due to a bug on > > =>udev-0.58-1, FC4, which causes a huge delay on ttyUSB creation, moment > > =>by when palm is not polling for sync anymore. You can test it. See > > =>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161058 > > =>seems duplicate of: > > =>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158809 > > =>Isnt that your problem? > > The bug is not in udev. There is a problem in pilot-link in FC4. The > > problem also manifests in palms over a fixed serial port. > Actually, it's a bit more complicated than all that. I believe this has > been discussed before, so a search of the archives would probably find > additional information, but let me summarize my take on it.... > > The developer of pilot-link has been putting together a new version > dubbed 0.12, but this new version has a new API. Now pilot-link > provides the low-level routines for several high level packages, like > jpilot, gnome-pilot, etc. While the developers of those other pieces > are aware of the new 0.12 API, most are still just starting to re-write > their code to utilize it, and do not generally have a timeline. Also, > the developer of pilot-link has been pretty emphatic that no > distribution should be shipping 0.12 of his code yet, until everyone has > ample time to "catch up". > > So, I suppose the mistake, if you want to call it that, is that the > packagers for Fedora Core 4, saw the new version of pilot-link and since > we're the bleeding edge, decided to include it on the distribution. Of > course, this then breaks all the packages that run on top of it. > Thanks, now its crystal. Will try updates-testing gnome-pilot this weekend. Have a nice weekend. -- Rodolfo Alcazar rodolfo.alcazar@xxxxxxxxxxxx Netzmanager Padep, GTZ 591-70656800, -22417628 LA PAZ, BOLIVIA -- Luke blows up his first TIE fighter. Luke Skywalker: Got 'im! I got 'im! Han Solo: Great, kid! Don't get cocky!
