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["Timothy R. Chavez" <timothy.chavez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: somerville
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: somerville
       Status: New => Won't Fix

** Changed in: somerville
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Maxim Levitsky (maximlevitsky)

** No longer affects: dell

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Title:
  [Feature Request] Provide a driver for Ricoh R5C822 xD card reader

Status in The Somerville Project:
  Won't Fix
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux” package in Debian:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  *** NOTE: this is a *wishlist* item - a request for new functionality.
  At present, and perhaps forever, xD support on linux is extremely
  limited.  This issue is a request to have xD support added for a
  specific, and somewhat popular, chipset.  Please do not add "me, too"
  items.  We know that it doesn't work.  If you want, please add
  yourself as a subscriber, and click on link to indicate that "This bug
  effects me, too"  In the meantime, there are two xD readers known to
  work with linux, so if you simply must have xD support, those would be
  your options.

  Now there is an xD driver for this chip.
  Supports kernel from 3.6.31.
  (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/44373795/ricoh_xd_3.tar.bz2)

  The driver is now in Maverick's kernel.
  You still need the udev rule to load FTL part of it.

  Or just add sm_ftl to /etc/modules.

  To install please do ./make && sudo make install && sudo make load

  Note that this package installs several kernel modules, similar to compat-wireless
  So, make sure that there is no conflict between existing mtd modules and these.

  *NOTE* If you use kernel lower that 2.6.34, please be sure to unload the ricoh-mmc driver.
  It conflicts with this driver.
  This does meant that on this kernel you *can't* use both xD and MMC cards
  To be sure that ricoh-mmc is not loaded, you should see the following output:
  You can use a modified sdhci driver for mmc cards I attached.
  Unfortunately this driver won't help on Mavaric kernel (my fault :-( )

  03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller
  (rev 12)

  and NOT:

  03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller
  (rev FF)

  ------------------------------------------------

  On multi-format card readers such as:

  > lspci | grep Ricoh
  03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
  03:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
  03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
  03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
  03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)

  SD and MMC cards work, but Xd cards do not.  This appears to be due to
  a lack of driver support for the Xd reader.

  There is no need to comment confirming this issue on more laptops.
  Every laptop with a similar type of reader will be affected.

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