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echo: rberrypi
to: ROBH
from: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
date: 2019-10-22 15:23:00
subject: Re: No video with Pi4

On 22/10/2019 14:29, RobH wrote:
> On 22/10/2019 12:18, RobH wrote:
>> I recently bought a Raspebery pi4, then a micro hdmi to vga adaptor,
>> then a the new type C power supply. I have just firedĀ  the pi4 up, but
>> there is no video. I've tried both hdmi ports on the pi, but still the
>> same. I've also checked all, well 2, connections on the vga cable from
>> the monitor to the pi4.
>>
>> I am suspecting the micro to vga adaptor, but is there any way I can
>> check. My other pi zeros and pi3 use the mini hdmi to vga.
>>
>> The monitor comes on and worked fine last week.
>
> The problem was and still is the Ubuntu mate image I used to flash the
> 64Gb card with. The Pi4 runs ok, but there is no video. If I use the
> raspian image it works just fine.
>
> I wanted to install ubuntu onto the card so that I could install 2 linux
> programs onto it, but then found that ubuntu mate was out for raspberry
> pi. But It doesn't show video.
>
> Anyone else used ubuntu mate on a pi.

Sounds like you need different video drivers.


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