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?
My family still runs two of this mobo, but older revisions. I remember hearing about bugs with IOMMU but I can’t recall any USB or other problems.
IOMMU can be disabled in BIOS; it seems that it would only be useful if passing devices through to a virtual machine? Is that a valid assessment?
Yeah, it seems its used for passing devices to virtualized environments, but it seems, on these old bulldozer motherboards, the usb devices are virtualized (I have read a long time ago, could be wrong).