Arch Linux

Yoda

Member

Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 7

SD Card won't automount with HAL

Hey all, I've been using Arch for a while now, but I figure I'd head over to the Newbie Corner for this one, as it's how I feel at the moment.  Anyways, I have HAL setup and it's added to the start-up daemons.  I've added myself to the groups optical, storage, and hal with no luck, and I've tried manually mounting my SD Card.  All of that's bringing up no dice.  Could anyone point me in the right direction on this?

kclive18

Member

From: Columbus, Ohio, USA

Registered: 2008-05-08

Posts: 219

Re: SD Card won't automount with HAL

What DE do you use?  With GNOME or KDE, you need to use fam in order to see external drives (install it and add it to your DAEMONS section in rc.conf).  With other DE's, you will have to use gamin (it doesn't have a daemon, just install it)

---

My Rigs:
- Mid-2007 iMac 20", Intel 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2x1GB DDR2-800, 250GB SATA HDD, and...MIGHTY MOUSE!!! , OSX 10.5 Leopard, ATI Radeon 2400XT 128MB
- HP zv6203cl, AMD Athlon 64 3200 S939, 2x512MB DDR400, 80GB 4200rpm HDD, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M 128MB, Arch i686
- 1986 Gibson SG Junior Cherry Red, Ibanez 15W amp, DigiTech RP250 modeling processor

rson451

Member

From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

Posts: 1,233

Website

Re: SD Card won't automount with HAL

If manually mounting doesn't work then this probably won't either, but once you get that sorted you'll need this link. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_SD_and_MMC_card_readers .  Works wonders for me.  In short -- udev doesn't recognize sd cards as removable memory so hal won't mount and unmount it.  iirc.

edit: fixed link and details.

Last edited by rson451 (2008-07-22 14:35:10)

---

archlinux - please read this and this — twice — then ask questions.
--
http://rsontech.net | http://github.com/rson

Yoda

Member

Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 7

Re: SD Card won't automount with HAL

03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22) (prog-if 01)
    Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f3
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
    Memory at f9aff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
    Capabilities: <access denied>

Is what I get when I run lspci -v.  I've got both hal and fam installed and in the daemons, but I had hal before fam, if that makes a difference.  I haven't rebooted since I switched the two but I'll check when I get home from work this afternoon.  I browsed over your link, rson, and it seems I'll need that driver and a little tweak of my kernel.  How would I go about implementing that driver?

rson451

Member

From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

Posts: 1,233

Website

Re: SD Card won't automount with HAL

So just so I understand this correctly, you do not have a /dev/mmcblk*p* device, or you cannot mount that device?

---

archlinux - please read this and this — twice — then ask questions.
--
http://rsontech.net | http://github.com/rson

Yoda

Member

Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 7

Re: SD Card won't automount with HAL

No, I don't have a /dev/mmcblk*p* device.

rson451

Member

From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

Posts: 1,233

Website

Re: SD Card won't automount with HAL

Alright then can you run dmesg -c, then plug in the card, unplug the card, then post the output of dmesg?  Probably worth a look.

---

archlinux - please read this and this — twice — then ask questions.
--
http://rsontech.net | http://github.com/rson