Card reader not working, but worked in Mint gnome? solved

[joutlan]

My card reader is not working I just noticed.....anything I need to do? It worked straight away in Mint gnome. Thoughts?

TIA

[Husse]

There are some "hidden differences" ....
Which card reader?

[joutlan]

Thanks Husse...here's an lspci....I believe it's the ricoh near the bottom as it's a 5 in one I believe:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)
08:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
08:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
08:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
08:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
08:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)

[rec9140]

My card reader is not working I just noticed.....anything I need to do? It worked straight away in Mint gnome. Thoughts?

My Dell Inspiron 9400 has a Richoh reader built in for SD, and to get LM KDE to use it I have to boot with a card in the reader, after boot, eject the card, put it back in and then do a refresh in Storage Media. After that the card shows up and is readable. With out a card in the slot it seems to just ignore that the reader is there during boot.

I'll check the 5 in 1 reader I have in the desktop when I get back home over the weekend. I know I can read it as I double checked it when I did the install, but don't remember doing anything special for it, but its one of the first installable 5/1 readers that would fit in a floppy drive slot, I've had it for a while.

So:

Put SD card or media into a slot
boot
open storage media
eject media
insert media
hit refresh

Media should appear.

[joutlan]

My card reader is not working I just noticed.....anything I need to do? It worked straight away in Mint gnome. Thoughts?

My Dell Inspiron 9400 has a Richoh reader built in for SD, and to get LM KDE to use it I have to boot with a card in the reader, after boot, eject the card, put it back in and then do a refresh in Storage Media. After that the card shows up and is readable. With out a card in the slot it seems to just ignore that the reader is there during boot.

I'll check the 5 in 1 reader I have in the desktop when I get back home over the weekend. I know I can read it as I double checked it when I did the install, but don't remember doing anything special for it, but its one of the first installable 5/1 readers that would fit in a floppy drive slot, I've had it for a while.

So:

Put SD card or media into a slot
boot
open storage media
eject media
insert media
hit refresh

Media should appear.

thanks, but that doesn't work for me. Actually, that's what I remember doing in gnome....? Wait...I'm trying to read a 2 gig SD card...is that a problem?

[rec9140]

thanks, but that doesn't work for me. Actually, that's what I remember doing in gnome....? Wait...I'm trying to read a 2 gig SD card...is that a problem?

Unfortunately I've got an office full of 1g and 512MB cards.......and I think the card in the reader at home is a 1GB too.

[joutlan]

thanks, but that doesn't work for me. Actually, that's what I remember doing in gnome....? Wait...I'm trying to read a 2 gig SD card...is that a problem?

Unfortunately I've got an office full of 1g and 512MB cards.......and I think the card in the reader at home is a 1GB too.

I've got a 1 gig card card around somewhere...I'll try it for sh$ts and grins and 'port back if it makes a difference.

[Husse]

I think Richoh has a proiblem with xd cards
Do a search for

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card reader Ricoh

in the forum. There are only some 8 hits but a few are useful
You could also try the spelling Richoh

[joutlan]

Solved....I reinstalled without the darned SD card in the reader, and now it magically works, no problem