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Greetings, Here are the details of my build. I'm posting this in case it helps somebody else. * OS: Linux Mint 17.1 * Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7, Rev. 3.0 with FDe BIOS (Beta, but working well). * CPU: AMD FX-8370E, running at 4.275GHz * CPU HSF: Zalman CNPS10X Optima. My...

The issue at hand in this discussion seems to have been the problems related to the implementation of EFI in the BIOS on certain newer mainboards and the additional complications involved because of the way the newer BIOS are designed. Many people have noticed that nothing USB, or...

I just learned, with my GA-990FXA-UD7, that for both the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 controllers to function properly in Linux (I'm using Mint 17.1) it required the following settings in the BIOS: xHCI handoff - Enabled EHCI handoff - Enabled IOMMU controller - Enabled This also made the ethernet...