status: legacy (EOL~2022-11-22) means end of life?
@ereissner Yes, compared to the graphics card on the Motherboard which was built: 2023+ Plus the Nvidia card in there probably only has 1GB of RAM… good enough to display (if working) nothing else…
You need a card to complement the AMD arch: RDNA-3 as in a card with the same arch series…
Only if you can get him to do so at nominal cost or free (and him keeping the dGPU).
Technically that’s what he did, until you reach the “long run” part, when it turns dubious. VGA has been deprecated for about 20 years already. Because of the “long run” part, he should have sold you a different motherboard that has at least two digital outputs (HDMI + DP or DP++; or dual DP) instead of one digital and one analog. Someone who just bought a computer shouldn’t need to buy another dGPU unless he’s a gamer or has other ultra-high-performance needs. Your present APU does have all the capability you probably have use for.
That said, if you don’t like the VGA port results, and don’t mind spending more money, malcolmlewis’ suggestion would be the easiest, and possibly cheaper than a suitable dock or other USB-to-DP converter.
I sent you a pic of the back side of the computer.
Lots of USB but no DP.
On the other hand, inxi -SGaz shows DP output but no USB.
Is it available on the board but not connected???
Or does it mean that DP is provided via USB?
Or even via VGA output???
Does the output of inxi -SGaz mean that no graphic output is available via USB?
How do you know that this is my motherboard ( Asus PRIME A620M-K)?
you can infer from output of inxi -SGaz??
inxi -GMSaz here
I believe the DPs are reported by inxi via a kernel query similar to the following:
# ls -gGh /sys/class/dr*
/sys/class/drm:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 Apr 27 14:50 card1 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 Apr 27 14:50 card1-DP-1 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card1/card1-DP-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 Apr 27 14:50 card1-DP-2 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card1/card1-DP-2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 Apr 27 14:50 card1-HDMI-A-1 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card1/card1-HDMI-A-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 Apr 27 14:50 card1-HDMI-A-2 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card1/card1-HDMI-A-2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 Apr 27 14:50 card1-HDMI-A-3 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card1/card1-HDMI-A-3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 Apr 27 14:50 renderD128 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/renderD128
-r--r--r-- 1 4.0K Apr 27 14:50 version
/sys/class/drm_dp_aux_dev:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 Apr 27 14:50 drm_dp_aux0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card1/card1-DP-1/drm_dp_aux0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 Apr 27 14:50 drm_dp_aux1 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card1/card1-DP-2/drm_dp_aux1
#
From that, Xorg filters it down to:
# xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x46; cap: 0xf (Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload); crtcs: 3; outputs: 5; associated providers: 0; name: modesetting
output DP-1
output HDMI-1
output HDMI-2
output HDMI-3
output DP-2
#
crtcs: 3 means actual outputs supported at the same time are limited to 3 of the 5 outputs listed. The actual physical connectors existing are:
- DisplayPort (card1-DP-1)
- HDMI (card1-HDMI-A-2)
- DVI (card1-HDMI-A-3)
- VGA (card1-DP-2)
# xrandr --listmonitors
Monitors: 3
0: +*DP-1 2560/598x1440/336+0+1200 DP-1
1: +HDMI-2 1920/519x1200/324+0+0 HDMI-2
2: +HDMI-3 1680/473x1050/296+1920+0 HDMI-3
# inxi -Gxx
…
Monitor-1: DP-1 pos: primary,bottom-l model: Acer K272HUL res: 2560x1440
hz: 60 dpi: 109 diag: 686mm (27")
Monitor-2: HDMI-A-2 mapped: HDMI-2 pos: top-left model: NEC EA243WM
res: 1920x1200 hz: 60 dpi: 94 diag: 612mm (24.1")
Monitor-3: HDMI-A-3 mapped: HDMI-3 pos: top-right model: Dell P2213
res: 1680x1050 hz: 60 dpi: 90 diag: 558mm (22")
#
I suspect in your case, there is potential to make a software connection from one or more of the kernel-listed DPs to the USB 3.2 bus cabled to a dock or splitter with DP outputs, which is what laptops must be doing. I have no equipment with which to prove this.
Until you try cabling from the VGA output to a monitor, booting, and running inxi -Ga or ls -gGh /sys/class/dr* I don’t think we can know much more about your VGA output.
I have no idea how to tell to what extent, if any, that inxi is capable of explicitly reporting video connections via USB. The inxi author Harald (nick @H2 on ircs://libera.chat/smxi, here (IIRC) and elsewhere) should be able to tell you whether or not it can.
Oh man, where to start?
I’m disappointed someone sold you this mobo. The worst thing it’s not the cheapest one. For the same price or less you could have, first example coming to mind, Gigabyte A620M-H with DP 1.4 & HDMI 2.1. Adding ~40$ (the price of NV GT610; is not worth more - I’m assuming you did not pay more for it) to the budget you could buy the cheapest mobo with B650 chipset (MSI, Gigabyte) and they all have DP & HDMI with some other benefits as an addition.
Long story short… if I were You… I would not kill this dealer instantly. I would give him a chance to fix this problem. Talk to him… gently. 
Good luck
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