Hi
The other day I bought a 8 in 1 card reader from my local ALDI's (a good buy at £10).
It worked fine with Mepis, except there was no CD icon on my desktop, just a hard disk icon for the card reader: “Strange” I though “never mind, I will fix it with a reboot.”
But after rebooting Mepis, I found I still had the same problem, no CD icon and when I looked in the fstab, there was no mention of a CD drive.
Now being fairly new to Linux, and Mepis in particular, I had no idea what to do, and as I had not made a backup of the fstab, I decided that the best thing to do was reinstall the O/S.
So as I had a Mepis 2004.04 disk I decided to upgrade at the same time, the install went smoothly with no problems (what a wonderful distro Mepis is) and as I sat here happily drinking tea, I suddenly realized that I still had absolutely no idea what had caused the original problem.
So, I am writing to you in the hope that somebody can come up with some idea of what I did wrong, so I can avoid doing the same thing again, the next time I use the card reader.
I do realize I am just a little late in asking for help with this problem, and I promise, I wont take it amiss if you all tell me to go boil my head.

Hopefully Jim

P.S. Does anyone know the apt-get instruction for the Open Office quick starter

I also have a Tevion card reader from ALDI. If yours is the same as mine, it is external.

I have found that Linux does not like card readers plugged in without an actual card in them. If I plug it in with a CF card plugged in (which is all I have at present) it's fine. If I plug it in on its own, whether or not I try to add the actual card later, it does not work correctly, what is more the computer doesn't unmount hard drives properly on exit and I have to wait for a long fsuk when I reboot.

I use Gentoo so I don't know about your second question, but I know the program is "oooqs" so maybe it's "apt-get oooqs.deb"?

Thanks DAVE

T think you mt be right, because I first booted without a card in the reader, I then rebooted with the card, so that may be the problem, I wiil try your sugestion.

Thanks Jim