Fred,
I am running Mint 17 XFCE, and have recent experiences with my PC,
and a HDTV. Also, I've used a relatives ancient Dell, also running
Mint 17, to play well w/ a HDTV. W/ my PC, I used an HDMI cable,
w/ my relatives a VGA cable.
Both PCs worked well, but I did have to use the TV remote control
options to try to get the full PC display on the TV, but was not
100% exact. There is a difference how some TVs can be modified to
match PC output. It is difficult to say how to help, but I have
found I needed both PCs on, before I switched the TV on to work.
However, both systems did work well. In the past, I have tried to
change resolutions w/
xrandr.
But, had no real success, and I would be careful here.
Does your system work at home?
John
On 08/17/2014 10:23 PM, Fred Fifield wrote:
Hi Everyone!
I
have Mint 17 loaded on my HP Pavillion dv7 (1273d) and this
is the first time I've taken it out on the road. I'm in a
hotel and want to watch a dvd movie that will play on my
laptop on the nice HDTV in my hotel. I hooked the HDMI cable
from my computer to the TV and switched the TV output to the
correct setting. The desktop background shows up on the TV
but nothing else does, no taskbar, no icons, no mouse
pointer. Just the background. It seems like this should be
something easy but I can't figure out what it is.
I
went into the display setting thinking my issue might be
there. The TV I'm plugged into shows up there but that's it.
I've tried googling for an answer but I don't seem to be
able to phrase my request properly because I keep getting
responses for no sound.
Anyway,
any help you give will be appreciated. Thank you.
Fred
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