kpilot vs. gnome-pilot

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Nov 15 14:36:56 UTC 2005


Art Alexion wrote:

> One thing gnome-pilot seems to do better, though, is 
> device configuration.  On my system, my device seems to pick different
> USB ports randomly, so it gets annoying when I have to run 'dmsg | grep
> USB' and 'ls /dev/ttyUSB*' most of the times I want to do a sync and
> reconfigure kpilot to listen to the right port.  On gnome-pilot, you can
> configure multiple ports.  That way, if the pilot (kernel?) picks a
> different port, the sync completes without a reconfigure.

There's a default rule in udev that should be setting /dev/pilot
appropriately - use that.
-- 
derek





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