[Bug 30015] Re: should automatically detect attached devices and use the apporpriate port

[Matt Davey]

CVS version of gnome-pilot does use HAL.
I found, however, that the canned hal pda rules simply didn't work for me (fc5).
'lshal' showed the USB device, and the 'visor' enabled pseudo device, but didn't report the pda capability, palmos identifier, ttyUSB port or anything.
The good news is that the roadmap for pilot-link / gnome-pilot is the use of libusb, in which the visor ttyUSB port will no longer be used.

For the moment, CVS uses HAL to detect the USB device, and then uses its devices.xml file to recognise it as a known palm device.  The user still has to supply the port name.

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should automatically detect attached devices and use the apporpriate port
https://launchpad.net/bugs/30015