I recently bought a notebook, it's an Acer Aspire VN7-571G and it has an integrated SD Card reader.I've never used it since I bought it but I noticed today that by inserting an SD Card into the reader I got a lot of errors in dmesg (and obviously it doesn't work and I cannot get the contents of the card)lsusb output~$ lsusbBus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hubBus 001 Device 004: ID 04f2:b526 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04ca:3016 Lite-On Technology Corp. Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader ControllerBus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hubdmesg[15574.049888] mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card[15574.885575] mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card[15576.721786] mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card[15577.557882] mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card[15578.392879] mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card[15580.230223] mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card[15581.064610] mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card[15581.900787] mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card[15583.724426] mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card[15584.560521] mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card[15585.403090] mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card[15587.240348] mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card[15588.075997] mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card[15588.913567] mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD cardlsmod~$ lsmod | grep sdsdhci_pci              24576  0sdhci                  45056  1 sdhci_pcirtsx_usb_sdmmc         28672  0rtsx_usb               24576  2 rtsx_usb_sdmmc,rtsx_usb_msI've looked around on the internet but haven't found any useful information, plus I do have a dual boot with Windows 10 and I only can see when an SD card is inserted, but not its contents (even thought I already have the Realtek drivers installed)The same SD Card on another Windows computer does work without any problem at all.I'm thinking here of an hardware fault, even if I never did anything with the SD Reader
RTS5129 Card Reader with Ubuntu 15.10
ubuntu;sd card;realtek
Andrew removed his SE account / his answer.I solved by using this following GitHub repo and following the instructions: https://github.com/asymingt/rts5139