Re: [Opensync-users] multisync still won't work

[Ochal C. <oc...@ke...>]

J.L. Blom schreef:
> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 10:31 +0100, Ochal Christophe wrote:
>> J.L. Blom schreef:
> 
>>> Thanks for your answers.
>> No problem
>>
>>> Furthermore, when I connect my device I get a correct connection and the
>>> device shows automagically on my desktop and in nautilus.
>>> I can see the directory of the PDA in the nautilus window just as e.g.
>>> an external USB drive: its label is Mobile Device
>>> However, I just tried your suggestion of "synce-matchmaker status" and I
>>> got a segmentation fault. Maybe I have to restart Linux.
>>> Any other suggestions?
>> What distribution are you using? I own an identical iPaq, and it works 
>> with synce, eighter your distribution is getting in the way (there might 
>> be a dbus rule somewhere that starts all sorts of tasks when you plug in 
>> the usb cable & ipaq), or something else is interfering with synce.
>>
>> If i remember correctly, OpenSync uses synce to do the talking with the 
>> PDA, so aslong as there is no partnership with the PDA & synce you will 
>> not be able to sync.
> Ochal,
> Thanks for your reply. I did a ps -ef and didn't find synce, although
> the connection is recognised by the system. I use Fedora Core 5 (should
> upgrade to 6).
> I did a msynctool --plugins and it didn't show any although multisync
> finds as well the evo2 as the file-sync plugin. I can see dccm is
> running but I don't knoe how the various routines related to the
> USB-connection of a PDA are working together (or not?).
> I'll try your suggestion of starting opensync manually and let you know
> the result.
> Joep

You might want to checkout this site: 
http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/howto.php

PS: Opensync, while working, tends to screw up my contacts badly, you 
might consider using the old multisync 0.88 (iirc) for that one