Comment 13 for bug 226197

"I realize that 8.10 is still in alpha, and we should expect breakage to happen. However, Mr. Crowther's comments about not being able to sync with Evolution on 8.10 alpha 3 concern me. The workaround using usb: instead of the visor module does not work for me on an up-to-date 8.04 system with a Palm m130. I had hoped that this would just begin to work again with a new version of the kernel. Mr. Crowther, was your 8.10 alpha 3 system created from a clean install or a dist-upgrade?"

Good point; I used dist-upgrade, which has always given clunky results in the past.
I use a separate partition as "home", so the likelihood of importing the same problem to even a "clean" install is high, if it is a settings issue. In the interests of checking if this is the case, I have, over the past few months, reverted to 7.10, using my Live CD, without formatting my home partition, and synced successfully. I then reinstalled 8.04 from a Live CD, including formatting my home partition, so no existing settings or permissions would have been carried over, and cannot sync. I tried to compile the 2.6.25 kernel and made a hash of it (killed my nvidia driver and decided it was too much trouble to put right), so I decided to wait until Ubuntu started to use a kernel other than 2.6.24. That (so far) hasn't helped. I will do an install of 8.10 from a Live CD in October, when it is released in all its final majesty, perhaps then..............?
You will gather I am not a tech expert, so I need a solution that pretty much works "out of the box", and this issue is a long way off that for me yet.