No HDMI Showing

[Jonathan Whitney]

Ubuntu 18.04, Dell Inspiron 14 with Intel graphics. HDMI worked fine when I had Windows on the machine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-15.16-generic 4.18.20
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.2
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
Date: Fri Mar 1 23:45:17 2019
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: cosmic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:22b1] (rev 35) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics Controller [1028:06ac]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-02-20 (8 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.2)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 14-3452
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-15-generic root=UUID=c0f6a434-daaf-4365-8d4e-fe4ca37a190f ro quiet splash nomodeset vt.handoff=1
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 02/01/2018
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 4.3.0
dmi.board.name: 0TCR6W
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr4.3.0:bd02/01/2018:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron14-3452:pvr4.3.0:rvnDellInc.:rn0TCR6W:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrNotSpecified:
dmi.product.family: Inspiron
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 14-3452
dmi.product.sku: 06AC
dmi.product.version: 4.3.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.95-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.2.2-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 18.2.2-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.1-3ubuntu2.1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.1.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-3

[Jonathan Whitney (jwhit)]

So this was caused because I still had "nomodeset" in my grub, which I had needed for the monitor to work after the initial install. Once I took it out, everything works fine. Oops.