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Brent Wood wrote:
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<pre wrap="">--- Rosemary McGillicuddy <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mcgillra@infogen.net.nz"><mcgillra@infogen.net.nz></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I've just bought a card reader because can't get my camera recognised in
mandrake.
I read instructions on a board and following that took a look using
HardDrake - don't know if this is it or not. Instructions said to look
at hda. It says "old device file: /dev/hda" and just below " New devfs
device: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc".
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hda is your first (IDE) hard drive. It would normally have nothing to do with
your card reader. Playing with that is not a good idea. Later versions of Linux
have moved away from defining IDE drives simply as hda, hdb, etc, and have used
the more sophisticated approach you describe above.
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Yes I knew that was my first drive and not to play with it. It's just
that the instructions said the card reader would show there as /dev/sda
or something. So I was looking. Don't *think* I inadvertently did
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Post what sort of card reader you have, (IDE, USB etc) & someone here should be
able to help you work out what the device is & how to mount it.
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It's a Memory Stick USB 2.0 Card Reader/Writer. Got to get back into
linux first!<br>
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<pre wrap="">That's when I should have posted! Thought I would plug it in and see if
it would auto detect on reboot, but it hung at "starting ALSA". So
unplugged it and rebooted without it, but still hung at ALSA. So here I
am in windows begging for help to get mandrake going again.
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The simple way for us Mandrake users is to boot off the install disk & run the
repair. Usually fixes the silly things I manage to do to my system.
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Yes that was recommended by a poster on the newbie mandrake linux
group. Tried it, but still hanging.<br>
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<fishing> For those that prefer to wrestle with Linux instead of use their
computer </fishing> you can try booting into failsafe mode & see if that works,
then run drakeconf in text mode to sort out the sound (ALSA = Alternative Linux
Sound Architecture) problem. If you can get to the Hutt or J'ville LUG meetings
with your system I'm sure you'll find willing help.
Brent Wood
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I don't think there's a problem with ALSA, it just stalls there if I
try to add USB devices. Happened before when tried to install USB
mouse, but booted fine as soon as mouse was removed. Yes - must try to
get over sometime - would have come tonight, but starting night shift.
I'm sure I would learn a lot more quickly if I was doing under
supervision!<br>
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Thanks<br>
Rosemary<br>
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