Crap! HDMI... :( Update...

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

Well...
Linux is Linux is Linux.
Or is it? 

I ditched my effort to make Linux Mint work in my new laptop and tried the 
latest Kubuntu.  Installed and updated everything, installed the 
manufacturer drivers, tested it, and got HDMI to sort-of work.
Until I lost all X-display and could recover it by deleting ~/.kde and 
dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xsever-xorg. 

So I tried Kubuntu 10.04 but was unable to boot from the USB.
So I went back 15.10 and decided to try it little by little, I upgraded 
everything but stopped short of installing the manufacturer drivers and 
plugged HDMI to see what I got. 

It all worked perfectly...
Baffled...
Go figure!
I'm done.
ET 

 

kitepilot at kitepilot.com writes: 

> 
>> This xrandr was done with no HDMI cable plugged in, right?
> Wrong...   :(
> I booted M$, got the 4K TV working, booted back to Linux and ran xrandr.
> No joy...
> Installed the whole bumbleebee enchilada.
> Fan goes like a helicopter now, but no HDMI.   8-(
> Thanks!
> ET  
> 
>  
> 
> Matt Graham writes:  
> 
>> On 2016-03-17 19:33, kitepilot at kitepilot.com wrote:
>>> HDMI is detected, but no output.
>>> kitepilot at dreamliner:~ > xrandr -q
>>> Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
>>> eDP1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0
>>> DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>>> HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>>> HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>>> VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>> 
>> This xrandr was done with no HDMI cable plugged in, right?  If so, this 
>> is to be expected.  If this xrandr command was executed with an HDMI 
>> cable plugged in to the laptop and an HDMI device, something is wonky and 
>> you need to start looking in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and possibly the output 
>> of dmesg for anything that looks weird.  "man intel" doesn't say anything 
>> about potential things to try in xorg.conf.  (Intel video cards are 
>> supposed to just work....)  
>> 
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