So I got 2 new pc’s recently. One was a complete reinstall job, playing with the new Debian Etch installer. Unfortunately the kernel it came with was too old to support lvm at boot time, so even though I installed initramfs-tools it would not find my root partition in lvm. I had to use a rescue disk to upgrade to a newer kernel and initramfs-tools.
My other box was far more fun. I tried to move it to LVM. I made a copied the data from / into my new LVM root partiton, rebooted and found that I could not boot off LVM. Installing initramfs-tools and a newer kernel worked, but then I tried to resize my old partition smaller and make it just a boot partition, which killed grub. So a boot disk came back and I had to reinstall grub, which was full of hassle.
I do have both working now, so with a bit of effort it is possible.
So i decided to look for ways to sync my PocketPC powered XDA IIs in linux. Sure I could sync it in windows if I wanted to use Outlook as an email program (which I most certainly don’t). I found that it is relatively easy to sync with KMail. I personally prefer Thunderbird, but as there is not that much between the two, I will happily use the KDE offering in return for the ability to sync to my PDA.
So what is needed?
I installed synce-kde which allows you to connect your pda, along with syncekonnector which has the synchronising mechanism to sync with KMail.
Running it all was a bit odd, first off I had to select a serial port (their wording, not mine) of ttyUSB0 (which is the USB hub, and not the actual ports. Then launching Raki (a part of synce) allowed me to start up a daemon to launch the thing, yet it didn’t work. Googling revealed that I have to run synce-serial-start (I had to do a synce-serial-config ttyUSB0 too) and then the device came alive. Tick a few boxes and my contacts, tasks and calendar are all in the base KDE apps!
Excellent!
Just be careful with recurring entries. At the moment syncing a recurring entry from Kmail to your pda causes the calendar to crash (and on mine this caused a memory leak which killed the whole pda!).
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