Precise Pangolin: Trying to connect an external monitor using the minidisplay port on the Lenovo T430

Precise Pangolin: Trying to connect an external monitor using the
minidisplay port on the Lenovo T430

I am trying to connect a Lenovo T430 laptop to an HDMI capable external
display (It's a TV. Only available input is HDMI) with a minidisplay to
HDMI adapter. The adapter itself works( on Win 7). Relevant lspci details
follow.
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge Graphics
Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Lenovo Device 21f4
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 45
Region 0: Memory at f1400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Region 2: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Region 4: I/O ports at 7000 [size=64]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0def (rev a1)
(prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Lenovo Device 21f4
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Region 3: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Region 5: I/O ports at 6000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at f1000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiafb
Thanks in advance.