Running Palm Desktop

James Liggett jrliggett at cox.net
Sun Jul 3 14:28:14 CDT 2005


Hi Stefan,
Thanks for the reply. I was able to get Palm Desktop to install using
the CD that came with my palm (I have a Tungsten T. It comes with v.
4.1). It's odd that the one you have doesn't install anything. Did you
install native Windows Installer or are you using builtin?

James

On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 12:28 +0200, Stefan Leichter wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 3. Juli 2005 08:19 schrieb James Liggett:
> > Hi all,
> > I have a palm pilot that came with a lot of different apps, but they
> > have conduits that need windows to function. I have been experimenting
> > with getting Palm Desktop to run with Wine. It installs OK, but it
> > doesn't run because of a bug in WinMM. I can, however, get the Hotsync
> > service to run. But, it doesn't see my USB cradle. Has anyone tried
> > setting this kind of thing up to get Wine to interface with the cradle
> > using the visor driver? I thought this might work, since it emulates a
> > serial port. But, I don't know how to map a COM port to the device. Does
> > anyone know how to do that with Wine 20050628?
> >
> Hello,
> 
> yesterday (current CVS) i gave PalmDesktop_414_DE.zip a try. The installer 
> completed (no error message) but did not install any file. I thing the 
> problem are inside msi, but i am still searching for it.
> 
> If you may get the unicode version of the msi installer working and use , you 
> might have some luck. I never managed it. With the ascii version of the msi 
> installer i run into problem with missing comXXX.drv.
> 
> Some time ago i had Version 3 of the palm desktop running, but i did not 
> remember how id did it. I had to add a hardware related registy key. 
> Something about com ports.
> 
> I have not tried other versions of the Palm Desktop.
> 
> Bye Stefan




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