I too am having a very similar problem. It is occurring on a Gateway M320 laptop. Automounting of SD cards worked in 7.10 and earlier releases (at least back to 6.06, I believe), but is not working with 8.04.1 (fully updated), and I don't believe it has worked in 8.04 at any point. The reader is internal, which came with this laptop. I'm posting the files and outputs recommended by the "DebuggingRemovableDevices" page in the wiki. Hope this helps.
id yields:
uid=1000(toni) gid=1000(toni) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),107(fuse),109(lpadmin),115(admin),125(vboxusers),1000(toni)
id hal:
id: hal: No such user
id haldaemon:
uid=111(haldaemon) gid=123(haldaemon) groups=123(haldaemon)
uname -a:
Linux toni-lappy 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 23:41:49 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
I too am having a very similar problem. It is occurring on a Gateway M320 laptop. Automounting of SD cards worked in 7.10 and earlier releases (at least back to 6.06, I believe), but is not working with 8.04.1 (fully updated), and I don't believe it has worked in 8.04 at any point. The reader is internal, which came with this laptop. I'm posting the files and outputs recommended by the "DebuggingRemov ableDevices" page in the wiki. Hope this helps.
id yields: 4(adm), 20(dialout) ,24(cdrom) ,25(floppy) ,29(audio) ,30(dip) ,44(video) ,46(plugdev) ,107(fuse) ,109(lpadmin) ,115(admin) ,125(vboxusers) ,1000(toni)
uid=1000(toni) gid=1000(toni) groups=
id hal:
id: hal: No such user
id haldaemon: 123(haldaemon)
uid=111(haldaemon) gid=123(haldaemon) groups=
uname -a:
Linux toni-lappy 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 23:41:49 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux