Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P not good with linux

[Philip2015]

only the two usb3 sockets work under linux Mint. All usb2 sockets won't connect.

 

[snowctrl]

Is this a question?

 

[akuma6099]

only the two usb3 sockets work under linux Mint. All usb2 sockets won't connect.

I know its a bit late but I just purchased this board and ran into the same issue moving my kali distro over. I found that if you enable the EHCI handoff in the BIOS it enabled most of the USB 2.0 ports. By default XHCI is enabled which is why it picked up the USB 3.0 hub.

Another common issue is that Ubuntu/Debian kept loading the Realtek r8169 module when this board has the r8168! I would get an eth0 that stated gigabit link speed full-duplex etc... but would not DHCP and if you went static no packets moved. The solution was to obtain the sources from Realtek and compile and install. I pulled the sources via USB, compiled, rmmod and renamed r8169.ko, insmod r8168, ifconfig eth0 up. All working.

Try that BIOS setting, I'm sure it will help.

 

[stchman]

I know this is REALLY late to the party, but I have been using the GA-970-D3P sine Ubuntu 14.04. I now run Ubuntu 16.04. Each distro runs great.

First off, you need to disable IOMMU in the BIOS.

Second, you need up update your GRUB.

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

edit the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" to read GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="iommu=soft"

Save and exit nano.

Update grub with sudo update-grub.

Now reboot the machine, your USB2 and USB3 ports will work just fine. All other hardware with this motherboard works OOB.