I decided to roll with Linux for numerous reasons: sick of Windows and to learn a new OS a couple of them. My hardware listing is below (inxi -Fc 0). Everything after FAILED is in RED. I have two outputs on my video card; my 2nd display is not showing up in the display menu (System Settings --> Displays). Also, my system makes sound upon boot, but when watching videos in any format, I get nothing.
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System: Host: Home-PC Kernel: 3.2.0-34-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 13 Maya
Machine: System: Gigabyte product: N/A
Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z77-D3H version: x.x Bios: American Megatrends version: F19g date: 11/26/2012
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-3770 CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx)
Clock Speeds: 1: 1600.00 MHz 2: 1600.00 MHz 3: 1600.00 MHz 4: 1600.00 MHz 5: 1600.00 MHz 6: 1600.00 MHz 7: 1600.00 MHz 8: 1600.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA Device 0fc6
X.org: 1.11.3 drivers: vesa (unloaded: fbdev)
FAILED: nouveau,nvidia tty size: 113x53 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio: Card-1: NVIDIA Device 0e1b driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
Card-2: Intel Panther Point High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
Network: Card: Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet driver: alx
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: xxxx.xxxx.xxxx
Drives: HDD Total Size: 128.0GB (7.3% used) 1: /dev/sda M4 128.0GB
Partition: ID: / size: 110G used: 8.8G (9%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 8.55GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8C mobo: 27.8C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A