Tag: sd card readers

• #Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: Broken SD Card Reader Support

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  16.04

  I am writing this post as a tutorial or a 'keep' note for myself, but I think it could be interesting for a lot of people. At work I'm using a Latitude Dell Laptop with dual boot (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Windows 10). The laptop has a SD card reader. Usually I work under Ubuntu while I am programming, and the SD card reader support is broken! But typing the following on a terminal, makes it works again:

  sudo rmmod sdhci_pci sdhci_acpi sdhci
  sudo modprobe sdhci debug_quirks2="0x10000"
  sudo modprobe sdhci_pci sdhci_acpi sdhci

  It seems to be a problem since Linux kernel version 4.1.8. A bug report he...

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