Hello CapitanMcFly, many thanks for pointing me onto the right spot.
The following settings helped: xHCI handoff - Disabled (was Enabled) EHCI handoff - Disabled IOMMU controller - Enabled (was Disabled) Installation of Ubuntu Studio 16.04 successfully finished (USB devices were recognized and LAN was also working). @Joseph Salisbury As soon as I have fixed my RAID issues (no disks are recognized on the Marvel SATA controller - internal AMD controllers are fine) I will try to test that new mainline kernel. Good night -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574869 Title: USB controllers are not recognized (live and install 16.04 Xenial) Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: USB controllers are not recognized on Ubuntu Studio 16.04 LTS on a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 system [on chip 2.0 controller (via AMD SB950) and external onboard 3.0 controller (Etron EJ168)]. Changing EFI values in BIOS has no effect - system performs nominally within Win8.1. DVD boots (EFI and legacy load) the live system where no USB devices are recognized. USB stick boots (EFI and legacy) with a menu but soon ends with the following msg: [ 4.667018] usb 4-3: device descriptor read/64, error -32 [ 4.896013] usb 4-3: device descriptor read/64, error -32 [ 5.248018] usb 4-3: device descriptor read/64, error -32 [ 5.477047] usb 4-3: device descriptor read/64, error -32 [ 6.105027] usb 4-3: device not accepting address 4, error -32 [ 6.632023] usb 4-3: device not accepting address 4, error -32 [ 6.632068] usb usb4-port3: unable to enumerate USB device BusyBox v1.22.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.22.0-15ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list ob built-in commands. (initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system Last but not least Ubuntu Studio cant be installed due to other bugs (LAN failure and EFI grub installation abort). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1574869/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp