Built-in SD card reader not working, causing crashes on Acer Aspire in Mint 14
Hello team, got a thorny one.
I have an Acer Aspire with 8 gigs of ram running Mint 14 64bit which is set up like so, Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09) I've been through syslog, the xorg log, and dmesg, but when crashes occur there doesn't seem to be anything recorded in the logs. Closest I've gotten is this in dmesg Code:
[ 1.312029] udevd[99]: starting version 175 Something is wrong or missing, but I've no idea what. I'd really like to get this handled. Anyone else seen this or have any brilliant ideas? Thanks! |
Here is the dmesg output when I insert a card and it simply fails to read it, but doesn't crash.
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[ 2852.448195] sdhci: Timeout waiting for Buffer Read Ready interrupt during tuning procedure, falling back to fixed sampling clock AN IMPORTANT UPDATE~ Borrowed an 8gig sd card from a friend's camera, it mounts and reads just fine. Formatted my 16gig card in the same camera, took a picture for good measure, stuck it in the reader...CRASH! Could it simply be the card? My Lenovo G555 Slackware 14 laptop reads the same card just fine. Hmm. |
Well, its been several days, and I've been through a lot with this Acer in that time. For the purposes of this thread, suffice it to say that I gave up, went to reinstall windows 8, was unable to do so, and finally, with the help of a fantastic android app called DriveDroid, was able to rescue the system and install Ubuntu 12.10.
Unfortunately the weirdness with the sd card persists in Ubuntu, so apparently it was not solely a Mint issue to begin with. Farewell Mint 14, Cinnamon was a joy to use. Back to Ubuntu, Slackware and, when I need it, w*. Cinnamon is beautiful tho...I wonder if there's a package in the Ubuntu software center... |
it may be a bug or a problem with the driver which needs to be updated..
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after googling ..found that some users reported bugs with this card may be upgrading the kernel to te latest version will solve the problem
also being on a 64-bit system which is less familiar to the manufactures until recently may contribute to the problem.. |
I am not expert in Linux hardware but I will be glad to help you..
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@kareempharmacist
Cheers for the offer, but I've decided to just leave it alone for right now. There have been a couple of Ubuntu kernel updates since I posted this, but I haven't checked to see if the issue is fixed. Guess I could do that this evening tho... |
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