Feisty - Dell SD Card Reader Now Broken

I have not tested it on my Dell Inspiron E1505 notebook, but that might be something to look into. I worked on my Dell Inspiron 1501 notebook with Edgy, but it stopped working with Feisty.

same problem.I have a XPS m1210.It works fine just after i complete installing the system,but it doesn't now.Maybe some software caused a conflict with the SD card driver.

sorry that it seems to be a temporary problem.it works fine now.maybe it happens occasionally.

not worked in toshiba portege m400 too .

it's pci device:
Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)

I have a Dell XPS M1210 and I can confirm that this has been an issue at least since Dapper (6.06).

In the past I solved it by replacing the kernel with a custom kernel with the only difference being that
MMC is not dynamically loaded (as a module) but built into the kernel.

The weird thing is that sporadically, an inserted card would be detected and mounted ... no clue as to why it doesn't work every time.

Of course the card reader is fully functional in Windows XP.

lspci
03:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)

I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 and the Card reader is not working.
When I put a card in, dmesg tells nothing.

03:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)

Solved?

After reading elsewhere about doing a 'modprobe sdhci' before using the card-reader, I tried it, with a card already inserted into the card-reader:

sudo modprobe sdhci

(no output, meaning it was successful)

After having done this, the card reader would work each and every time (also across reboots, just as in Windows!) without having to load the sdhci module again using modprobe ... seems like this needs to be done once to load this module, then the system will remember it ...

Maybe this step is missing from the install/setup stage?

Many thanks!
My problem seems to be temporary,that sometimes I have to reboot my
system to make the SD card reader to work.The same thing happens to my
webcam,it works normally some time,but sometimes it doesn't,run lsusb
but cannot find the webcam.So my problem maybe not caused by the OS.
Thank you all the same!

On 5/14/07, fernanAguero <email address hidden> wrote:
> Solved?
>
> After reading elsewhere about doing a 'modprobe sdhci' before using the
> card-reader, I tried it, with a card already inserted into the card-
> reader:
>
> sudo modprobe sdhci
>
> (no output, meaning it was successful)
>
> After having done this, the card reader would work each and every time
> (also across reboots, just as in Windows!) without having to load the
> sdhci module again using modprobe ... seems like this needs to be done
> once to load this module, then the system will remember it ...
>
> Maybe this step is missing from the install/setup stage?
>
> --
> Feisty - Dell SD Card Reader Now Broken
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/105773
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> of the bug.
>

problem is still goes on. It does not worked.

I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 and the Card reader is not working.

lspci
03:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)

dmesg
[29628.600000] mmcblk0: error 2 transferring data
[29628.600000] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 1935352
[29628.600000] mmc0: Got data interrupt even though no data operation was in progress.
[29628.600000] sdhci: ============== REGISTER DUMP ==============
[29628.600000] sdhci: Sys addr: 0x1d67f000 | Version: 0x00000200
[29628.600000] sdhci: Blk size: 0x00007200 | Blk cnt: 0x00000000
[29628.600000] sdhci: Argument: 0x00000000 | Trn mode: 0x00000033
[29628.600000] sdhci: Present: 0x01ff0000 | Host ctl: 0x00000002
[29628.600000] sdhci: Power: 0x0000000f | Blk gap: 0x00000000
[29628.600000] sdhci: Wake-up: 0x00000000 | Clock: 0x00000107
[29628.600000] sdhci: Timeout: 0x00000008 | Int stat: 0x00000003
[29628.600000] sdhci: Int enab: 0x00ff00fb | Sig enab: 0x00ff00fb
[29628.600000] sdhci: AC12 err: 0x00000000 | Slot int: 0x00000001
[29628.600000] sdhci: Caps: 0x01e021a1 | Max curr: 0x00000040
[29628.600000] sdhci: ===========================================

On dapper work very well

I can confirm the problem on a Dell Inspiron 9400. SD works but xD does not. Output below shows hardware and software version.

$ uname -r
 2.6.20-16-generic

$ lspci | grep Ricoh
 03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832
 03:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
 03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
 03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
 03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)

$ dmesg | grep sdhci
[ 14.520000] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 14.520000] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[ 14.572000] sdhci: SDHCI controller found at 0000:03:01.1 [1180:0822] (rev 19)

carlo:

No, it sounds like you have an entirely different issue. This bug refers to SD functionality. XD is currently not supported under Linux.