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Any options to help with USB 3?

Last updated on 3 months ago
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ntromansSenior Member
Posted 3 months ago
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deadwood wrote:

@deadwood - If it was built after 2015 then USB 2.0 is most likely just "emulated" by USB 3.0 chipset. Your only option for now would be to motivate Kalamatee to resume his work on USB 3.0 support and wait. I'd still try AROS Portable on it though: @retrofaza made tweaks for touchpad support and faster boot times.


That's as expected, but I thought I'd ask just in case I was missing something. I have got one long-shot at getting this working which I'll try at the weekend; I'll report back if there is any success.

Cheers,
Nigel.
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ntromansSenior Member
Posted 3 months ago
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AMIGASYSTEM wrote:

@AMIGASYSTEM - Sorry, I don't quite understand. Do the USB ports not work with any OS? Do you have a CD-DVD drive?
What did you use to start AROS to check compatibility?


USB works with Linux and Windows (when it was on the machine) - but trackpad with neither (randomly stopped working with the original Windows install one day and never worked again with those OSs).

I booted by putting the SSD from my i5 machine into this one and the DVD drive (SATA) also works.

Cheers,
Nigel.
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deadwoodAROS Dev
Posted 3 months ago
#3
If it was built after 2015 then USB 2.0 is most likely just "emulated" by USB 3.0 chipset. Your only option for now would be to motivate Kalamatee to resume his work on USB 3.0 support and wait. I'd still try AROS Portable on it though: @retrofaza made tweaks for touchpad support and faster boot times.
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AMIGASYSTEMAMIGASYSTEMDistro Maintainer
Posted 3 months ago
#2
Sorry, I don't quite understand. Do the USB ports not work with any OS? Do you have a CD-DVD drive?
What did you use to start AROS to check compatibility?
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ntromansSenior Member
Posted 3 months ago
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A quick question. I'm trying to get AROS installed on an old ACER Aspire E15 S laptop. The keyboard on it is dead but I'm hoping to turn it into a large touchscreen pad in a similar manner to what I did with my Samsung netbook; when doing online tutoring I found the Samsung's screen a bit too small so a bigger version would be useful.

The machine overall is good for AROS (VESA graphics but working audio, wired network, SATA and touchpad) but it's USB 3 does not work on any port (even the supposedly USB 2 ones). Trident reports USB devices attached at boot but gets no data from them (e.g. no keypresses from a keyboard) and does not recognise devices subsequently removed and attached.

So I was wondering are there any 'tweaks' that can be applied via grub or otherwise which might help with this?

Cheers,
Nigel.

P.S. this is under 32 bit as I would need to run Hollywood applications as part of the tutoring process.

P.P.S. The new Linux/AROS distrubution would probably not be an ideal solution as Linux (Unbuntu) does not recognise the touchpad on this machine, and I would like to keep that as an alternative to the touchsceen. Also Linux boots incredibly slowly on this machine (a good 60 s) whereas AROS boots in about 5 s...
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