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
Thank you very much. This is exactly what was going on. I should have
figured this out on my own, the big clue being the desktop background
showing up on the TV screen. For some reason I was expecting the TV display
to be a duplication of the laptop display, not an extension of it. I d on't
know
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
