Re: [tlug] SD Card not appearing on desktop. Again.

["Arwyn Hainsworth" <arwynh@example.com>]

On 10/04/07, Dave M G <martin@example.com> wrote:
> Darren, Godwin,
>
> Thank you for responding.
>
>
> Darren Cook wrote:
> > Are you still able to boot into the old system where the SD card works?
> > If so, try that, insert an SD card, and then do lsmod,
> The bad news is that my old installation is having Nvidia troubles, so
> it's hard to check on that one.
>
> The good news is that my girlfriend's laptop mounts the SD cards just
> fine. So I can look at the difference on that machine.
>
> I put in an SD card on her computer, and ran lsmod. It's a little long,
> so it's hard for the human eye to pick out the similarities and differences.
>
> My lsmod shows:
> sd_mod                 23428  5
> scsi_mod              142348  5 usb_storage,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
> usbcore               134280  7
> usbhid,wacom,usb_storage,libusual,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
> usbhid                 26592  0
> usb_storage            72256  0
>
> Her lsmod shows:
> sd_mod                 22656  2
> usb_storage            75072  1
> scsi_mod              144648  3 sg,sd_mod,usb_storage
> usbcore               134912  4 usb_storage,libusual,ohci_hcd
>
> But as far as I can tell, hers doesn't have a usbhid entry, and I do.
> Maybe that's a problem?
>
> I tried dmesg on her machine:
> [17179759.160000] SCSI device sdd: 1935360 512-byte hdwr sectors (991 MB)
> [17179759.172000] sdd: Write Protect is off
> [17179759.172000] sdd: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> [17179759.172000] sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
> [17179759.196000] SCSI device sdd: 1935360 512-byte hdwr sectors (991 MB)
> [17179759.208000] sdd: Write Protect is off
> [17179759.208000] sdd: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> [17179759.208000] sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
> [17179759.208000]  sdd: sdd1
> [17179760.308000] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT
> filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
>
> And on mine:
> [  853.106254] SCSI device sdd: 1935360 512-byte hdwr sectors (991 MB)
> [  853.106876] sdd: Write Protect is off
> [  853.106881] sdd: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> [  853.106887] sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
> [  853.108623] SCSI device sdd: 1935360 512-byte hdwr sectors (991 MB)
> [  853.109246] sdd: Write Protect is off
> [  853.109250] sdd: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> [  853.109254] sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
> [  853.109257]  sdd: sdd1
>
> The only difference is the last warning she gets, about FAT file systems.
>
> And yet, she gets a nice icon on her desktop, and I can't access the
> card at all.
>
> Is there anything else I can test on her machine to see what's making
> icons happen for her?
>
> Godwin said:
> > Maybe I'm just an old dinosaur, but what is wrong with mounting an
> > external device using the keyboard anyway?
> Nothing wrong with it. Just not how I want to do it. And I don't want to
> let a malfunction dictate my choices.

Your SD card seems to be detected and all the needed kernel modules
are loaded, so udev is not at fault here. The problem is that it isn't
auto-mounting. Ubuntu uses a combination of gnome-volume-manager, hald
and dbus to perform automounting. Make sure they are all running and
setup correctly. The following link might help a bit, just ignore the
gentoo parts and pay close attention to the last section which might
hold the solution to your problem.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_gnome-volume-manager

Arwyn