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On 12/09/17 15:28, Richard Brown wrote: > Hi > > Thanks for the reply. Sorry I had given up. The problem is confusing > with dual monitors showing up when I only had 1 etc. It was further > confused by sound not working as well. Sound was defaulting to HDMI > despite VGA being connected + lead! > > Happy not to buy a graphics card but equally if it is going to solve a > problem then happy to purchase. I was going to pay the Â150 for the > graphics card Daniel suggested. However, if you have a second hand idea > of risky and fun - I'm totally up for it! I don't know what state your system is in of course and how easily you can "play" with it but I'd try some more cutting edge live/install Linux distros first - Arch (or an easier GUI-based derivative like Manjaro), Fedora Core and Debian Sid spring to mind. All will ship with comparatively much newer kernel/driver/software stacks that hopefully might Just Work(tm). Definitely worth trying as your PC's built in GPU is actually pretty capable if you can just get it to play nicely and then you can spend your graphics card money on more RAM or a lovely NVME drive - either of which would provide better video editing bang for buck. Also, umm, have you tried Windows? Seriously. Not only can you check everything works properly and as expected in conventional Wintel territory - where it better had do or you really know something is seriously wrong - but it's usually easier to use vendor supplied utilities to flash updated BIOS, UEFI, firmwares, etc. You could run your normal Ubuntu video editing system fullscreen in VirtualBox or whatever for a while and wait for your preferred Linux distro to catch up with out of the box driver support for your PC, which I'm sure won't be long coming. Or you could just buy a graphics card, not sure how much time you want to invest playing with your new PC instead of actually using it... Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq