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

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

Well...
Flabbergasted... 

I installed last Kubuntu at home and everything worked as advertised.
Then I connected to the TV I bought as a monitor and DOESN'T $%&K!NG WORK!
8-( 

Window$ works flawlessly, but Linux doesn't... 

What's different between the TV at home and this one?
Beats me...
ET 

 

kitepilot at kitepilot.com writes: 

> 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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