[Swansea Hackspace] Accessing laptop without video

[Skylar Ross]

Honestly it sounds like it might be a bigger issue with the laptop,
graphics or something.
Is it being detected on the network? Or anything that shows it actually
coming on?

On Tue, 15 May 2018, 10:12 Finlay Russell, <finlay3110 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It might just be a dodgy connector
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:09 AM, Neil Jones <neil at aurinia.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> i have a laptop that has no video it seems. An external screen does not
>> work. So it isnt the screen itself. I have an identical model with
>> partly broken screen that does work like this.
>>
>> The laptop runs ubuntu and is booting and I can log in with the password
>> blind and it responds to pings on my internal network.
>>
>> I can obviously try swapping around the hard disk.
>> ​
>> However, before then is there anything any one can suggest that I can
>> easily do perhaps by typing in commands carefully and blindly to get access
>> to the files across a network
>> Telnet ssh etc.
>>
>> Alternatively is there any other method to add to my knowledge of what is
>> working.Where  i am what is going on  etc without being able to use video.
>>
>> Any help would be welcome.
>>
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