OK, I think I have got past my gpilotd issue, I can now connect to my visor. I uninstalled the gnome-pilot and gnome-pilot conduits. Searched the files system and removed all gpilot and gpilot conduit references. I even uninstalled pim-conduits. Downloaded the source rpms from mandrake, added the --enable-visor-usb switch to the gnome-pilot spec file. and created new rpms for gnome-pilot and gnome-pilot-conduits, as a bonus I got gnome-pilot-devel. The rpms installed perfectly, no problems. I connect to the visor, even got the userid. When ever I try to configure conduits I get a crash and the error message "perhaps the conduit isn't properly installed". Did I need to add something about the visor to the conduits spec file? Would seem silly to me, but one never knows. The gnome-pim-conduits can be configured, but I get error messages upon connection about invalid conduit type. Has anybody successfully used any of the gnome-conduits? Any suggestions as to what might be going on would be appreciated. I searched gnome.org bug list and didn't find anything relevant ...yet. I will continue the search.
I have no problem using jpilot to connect and sync, but would like a more integrated desktop. I am looking at gnome because it seems that kpilot and conduits for kde2 has dropped off the face of the earth, otherwise I would probably be beating my head against the kde2 stuff. My basic goal is to have a desktop calendar that is in parity with the visor, a mail program that uses the email address from the visor address book and yada..yada.
Thanks again,
Jerry S.