I just installed opensuse 11.2 on my laptop in a dualboot configuration with windows 7.
I prefer using suse, but also recognize, that once in a while, windows is useful.
One of the things i like to do in linux is handle my photos with f-spot/gimp, but for some reason my laptops built in card reader is not recognized by the system. If a card is inserted, it doesn’t even show up in the partition manager…?
I’m not completely new to linux, but i’m not an advanced user either, so i can’t figure out what to do here. Any suggestions?
esbennn wrote:
> I’m not completely new to linux, but i’m not an advanced user either,
> so i can’t figure out what to do here. Any suggestions?
in a well working 11.2 when you insert a card in the reader it should
be automatically ‘seen’ by openSUSE (if there is a driver for the
purchased hardware) and a popup should appear in the center of your
desktop asking what you want to do and giving various options like
“Open in a new window”, “Download photos with DigiCam”, “Do Nothing”…
since that is apparently not working then i have to assume you either
have a faulty install, so ask: did you do this before install attempt http://tinyurl.com/yajm2aq ?
or something has gone amiss in the auto-detection system…which WILL
go wrong if you (for example, because of your past Linux experience)
wanted to automount the card and put it in your /etc/fstab (like in
the OLD days)…
hmmmm…there is a command line magic you can enter before you put in
the card, and then again after to see if HAL saw the action…but,
unfortunatly that bit of magic escapes me this second…
you might even include your hardware maker/model and jump right to the
revelation of no driver provided by your maker–in which case you are
out of luck until the Linux developers are able to figure out, on
their own, how to make it work…
best to buy hardware known to work with linux (easiest way to to that
is buy a machine with Linux loaded at the factory)
My very first reaction seeing the Title of your thread was: Are you really using such a beast:http://www.xs4all.nl/~hcvv/card_reader.jpg
It only shows I am getting old!
In any case, welcome to these forums (seeing this is your first post).
Apart from looking at dmesg output when you insert the card and the other suggestions from DenverD, you could tell is if you use Gnome or KDE. This will let us understand more easily with what you might see before you.
I’m running gnome, and everything works perfectly well, except of course for the card reader.
However, when i checked the installation media, it at some point said that the disk was broken.
So, should i re-burn the image and attempt to repair the system, or do i need to do a clean install?>:(
Oops, when, during the check in the beginning of the install, it said the DVD (I presume) was broken, you should have burned another one. And I hope you also checked the checksum of the downloaded ISO before burning (it is no use to burn something that is allready broken).
You could check the DVD again and tell us the result.
as for your question on clean install vs attempt to repair the
system…well, do you know what needs repair or how to do it? i don’t!!
i think if it were my machine i’d do a full backup of your Redmond
drives and a full backup of any data you might have accumulated on
your Linux drives…and, i’d make all those to an off machine media…
then i’d do a new, “clean” (ie format all the linux partitions) install…
otherwise, i wouldn’t know how to make sure the initially introduced
faults were eliminated…
that said: if you wish to TRY, once you have the perfect install
media, you can boot from it and select “Repair Installed System” if might find all errors and fix them…it might not…
and, finally: i hope you know that even if you get a perfect install
disk, and do a ‘clean’ install you still might not have a functional
card reader…that is, have you searched our hardware compatibility
list, or Smolt’s database, or used google to see if you brand/model is
supported?
