Ubuntu does not detect XD Card with Dell XD card reader

from what i understand, you want to upload pictures to an online service (youtube) and the photos are on an XD card
the reader isnt working though
you have a dell machine

is this correct?

does it give any error messages or does nothing when you insert the card?

yes: want to upload pictures to an online service (youtube) and the photos are on an XD card
the reader isnt working though
 have a dell machine.

It does nothing when you insert the card.

can you check the hardware information and see if your computer is detecting it
go to: System--->Preferences--->Hardware Information
try to find the card reader, read everything carefully, stuff can be overlooked easily in this

I don't know what the card is listed as. But many pieces of hardware are "unknown." I need a codec so my computer will recognize the card.

Many internal card readers are not fully supported in Linux. I ended up getting a cheap USB card reader for my digital cameras and it was worked flawlessly (and it's nice to have when I am on the go and potentially borrowing the computer of someone who does not have a card reader).

If you do want to try to get it working, you'll need more info. Open a terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) and type in lspci and add the output to a reply here. That should let us know a little more about the card reader so we can see which one it is and if there is any support for it.

zunefan1@Mark:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71 [Quadro FX 1500M] (rev a1)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
03:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 01)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)

I saw a fair bit of info on people having similar issues with the Ricoh card reader. The directions at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=315497 appear to successfully enable use of SD and MMC cards but XD seems virtually completely unsupported. I found one claim of success with a different card reader http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/sandisk-multicard-reader-wont-read-xd-cards-361865/ so you can maybe get some ideas there, but it sounds like XD is not easy to get working in Linux.