[Swansea Hackspace] Accessing laptop without video

[Aled]

If you have an identical model which you can use with a dodgy but working screen, and don't have access to the broken one through SSH, them to be honest it would probably be easier to swap the hard disks and use that one to get at your data than fiddling around blindly with no screen at all. 



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On Tue, 15/5/18, Skylar Ross <ross.ceed at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Accessing laptop without video
 To: "Swansea Hackspace" <hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>
 Date: Tuesday, 15 May, 2018, 10:25
 
 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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