[Swansea Hackspace] Accessing laptop without video

[Neil Jones]

Thanks Ceri. Thats a good suggestion. I had tried it but it reminds me to add it to the things to go through

when I do my final tests before getting the screwdrivers out.

It is always possible that the other machine has a default set differently or something. Ill see if the one with working

video can have its options changed.

I had one problem this week that looked really weird. Coming back to it later I found an obvious typo. You dont see things like this unless you pause.

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ON 12:30, 15TH MAY 2018, CERI CLATWORTHY WROTE:

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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  wrote:

​yes , as I said it responds to pings.

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ON 10:25, 15TH MAY 2018, SKYLAR ROSS WROTE:

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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,  wrote:

It might just be a dodgy connector 

 On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:09 AM, Neil Jones  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.

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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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