Trying to breathe some extra life into my computer now that we’re past the windows 10 EoL and I’m trying to install Mint
So far everything seems to be working fine except that some of my USB ports don’t seem to be working.
They work in Windows, they work in the BIOS but once I’m up and running in with some of them just stop.
My motherboard is a gigabyte ga-990fxa-u3 (Rev 4.0) running the latest bios version
It has some USB 3.0 ports, and some 2.2, I’m not home right now to double check but I believe it’s the 2.2 ports that aren’t working.
I played around with Linux a little bit well over a decade ago but I’m essentially a total Linux noob
Anyone got any thoughts about what’s going on with these ports or how to fix it?
I had this problem specifically dealing with the way that IOMMU maps devices conflicting with a really old USB root hub. I had to set something like intel_iommu=off for my case.
Would you be willing to share the output of your dmesg ?
My google-fu definitely seems to be pointing to it being a IOMMU issue.
Not currently home with the computer, I’ll play with a couple settings when I get in and if it doesn’t get me anywhere I’ll definitely share that output
Sounds good! Basically, the problem I had boiled down to a super old driver no kernel dev wants to touch with a ten foot pole and they’re just kinda hoping it’ll die a death to irrelevancy, but there are a few systems out there that do still use it.
The rest of the design moved on to more advanced architecture.