I have a HP Pavilion dv7 2080eo multimedia laptop and on Ubuntu 10.04 everything works fine EXCEPT the digital media card reader. When I perform the 'lspci' command in terminal or 'dmesg', the card reader is not shown in the list. Even so when I enter a MMC or XD card in the slot nothing happens. The card reader has never worked for me before on this laptop and I think that there is no driver what so ever available for it. Hopefully I'm wrong and there is a solution to this slightly annoying problem.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic 2.6.32-24.41
Regression: No
Reproducible: Yes
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.41-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: trojkolka 1647 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xd2400000 irq 16'
Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD75B3X5'
Components : 'HDA:111d7603,103c3064,00100202'
Controls : 20
Simple ctrls : 12
Card1.Amixer.info:
Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xd2310000 irq 19'
Mixer name : 'ATI R6xx HDMI'
Components : 'HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100100'
Controls : 4
Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]
Date: Sat Aug 21 14:35:56 2010
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=05b5fab7-6a81-425d-a10f-149c003a522d
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100224.1)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic root=UUID=1868e7ec-b1a2-46d4-abc8-5ad56fbe816c ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.34.1
RfKill:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: linux
dmi.bios.date: 05/11/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.13
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 3064
dmi.board.vendor: Quanta
dmi.board.version: 19.15
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Quanta
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.13:bd05/11/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv7NotebookPC:pvrRev1:rvnQuanta:rn3064:rvr19.15:cvnQuanta:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: Rev 1
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
OK I have read some forum posts on this and tried some stuff out. I think the bug should be fairly easy to be fixed. When I keep the card in the slot reader and reboot my computer the card reader is recognized and I can access the contents on the card as it should be.
lspci reports the following additional items back:
0a:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller
0a:00.1 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller
0a:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller
0a:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller
0a:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller
So the problem only occurs
- When you have an active session and have no card inserted, bug is that the whole Media card controller is not recognized.
- When you have an active session and have any media card inserted, bug is that the whole media card controller is not recognized resulting in no possibility to view or edit media card's content
Only after reboot with media card inserted during complete reboot cycle the controller and the media card contents is recognized and can be accessed