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    SD multicard reader not working on Dell Inspiron E1705

    Hello,

    I'm having trouble getting the SD/XD/multi card reader on my Dell Inspiron E1705 to work correctly. I find it listed under lscpi:

    03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
    03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
    03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)

    But when I put a card into the drive, nothing happens. I can't see the card in the file manager and can't figure out how to get it to mount. I found this solution from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...064&p=11440361.

    in terminal: gksu gedit /etc/modules
    now enter this under the last line
    sm_ftl
    restart computer

    But I hit a snag:
    isaac@IBickLin:~$ gksu gedit /etc/modules
    sh: gedit: not found

    I have also tried "gksu edit /etc/modules" with the following result:
    isaac@IBickLin:~$ gksu edit /etc/modules
    Warning: unknown mime-type for "/etc/modules" -- using "application/octet-stream"
    Error: no "edit" mailcap rules found for type "application/octet-stream"

    Does anyone have suggestions for how to get this fix to work for me, or some other way to fix the problem of the card reader not working? I'm pretty new to all things unix, so I would appreciate some detail in suggestions.

    Thanks!
    inbrick
    Last edited by Snowhog; May 25, 2013, 11:18 PM.
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    Re: SD multicard reader not working on Dell Inspiron E1705

    Originally posted by inbrick
    in terminal: gksu gedit /etc/modules
    now enter this under the last line
    sm_ftl
    restart computer
    One thing to remember when reading the Ubuntu forums is that most of the folk there write their advice for GNOME and Unity -- which at times will be different than similar advice for KDE.

    In the case here, you need to use Kate or Kwrite to edit the file rather than Gedit, and you also need to use kdesu rather than gksu to elevate your user rights. Oh, and one other thing: it's best not to start elevated GUI utilities from a non-elevated shell.

    The "KDE way" to edit your file with a graphical editor is to do the following:

    1. Press [Alt]+[F2] to open the KRunner prompt
    2. Enter kdesu kate /etc/modules
    3. Enter your password when prompted
    4. Make your edits
    5. Save the file and exit the editor

    Alternately, at the command line, the editor you'll want to use is called nano, so do this:

    1. Enter sudo nano /etc/modules
    2. Enter your password when prompted
    3. Make your edits
    4. Save the file and exit the editor
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      Re: SD multicard reader not working on Dell Inspiron E1705

      only one correction for Mr. Riley. its kdesudo not kdesu.

      yes beware of the gnome specific info general rules

      if you see gksu , use kdesudo
      if you see gedit , use kate
      if you see natulius use dolphin

      there are some other ones but its earily and i seam to be unable to think of more. besides those are the common ones that you will see.


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        Re: [Solved] SD multicard reader not working on Dell Inspiron E1705

        Thanks SteveRiley and sithlord48!

        That did the trick. I appreciate the help!
        inbrick
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          Re: SD multicard reader not working on Dell Inspiron E1705

          Originally posted by sithlord48
          only one correction for Mr. Riley. its kdesudo not kdesu.
          Hm... on my machine Oneiric machine, they're the same:

          sriley@SRiley-T410:~$ ll /etc/alternatives/kdesu
          lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2011-06-30 23:32 /etc/alternatives/kdesu -> /usr/bin/kdesudo*
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            Re: [SOLVED] SD multicard reader not working on Dell Inspiron E1705

            odd on mine there is no command for kdesu.
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              Re: [SOLVED] SD multicard reader not working on Dell Inspiron E1705

              I investigated a bit more and the results are even more convoluted:

              sriley@SRiley-T410:~$ ll /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu
              lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2011-06-30 23:32 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu -> /etc/alternatives/kdesu*

              sriley@SRiley-T410:~$ ll /etc/alternatives/kdesu
              lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2011-06-30 23:32 /etc/alternatives/kdesu -> /usr/bin/kdesudo*

              sriley@SRiley-T410:~$ ll /usr/bin/kdesudo
              -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 72976 2011-01-29 04:33 /usr/bin/kdesudo*

              A link to a link to a 73 kB binary. But then...

              sriley@SRiley-T410:~$ ll /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu-distrib/kdesu
              -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 52984 2011-12-12 04:19 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu-distrib/kdesu*

              A separate 52 kB binary! I suspect it'll eventually disappear, given that kdesu/gksu have been on the deprecation list for a while now.
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