[Swansea Hackspace] Accessing laptop without video

[Ceri Clatworthy]

Lots of laptops have Fn & F?

To switch between Screen/Monitor/Projector/Single/double view.

Just like Volume Up/Down, brightness

Worth trying ..

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Neil Jones <neil at aurinia.co.uk> wrote:

> ​yes , as I said it responds to pings.
> ​
> ​
> ​
> *On 10:25, 15th May 2018, Skylar Ross wrote:*
> ​
> 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
> <http:///webmail/compose?to[]=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
> <http:///webmail/compose?to[]=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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