[mdlug] Old laptop screen broke

[Jeff Hanson]

The screen on my old primary workstation laptop (Win10) failed so I removed
it and plugged in an external monitor.  Was a nice portable desktop.

I bought a new laptop so I now access the old one over VNC when I need
something off of it.  Main problem I encountered with VNC on Win10 was the
screen resolution defaulted to VGA due to no monitor being detected at
startup.  I installed a virtual display driver (from somewhere on github)
to set it to match my Xubuntu laptop screen size for the VNC client.


On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 7:30 PM Gib <gibmaxn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay, great.  Thank you both.
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 6:19 PM Richard L <richardl5551212 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > No, it's a desktop computer now. Don't throw it out.
> >
> > On Mon, May 20, 2024, 19:08 Gib <gibmaxn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Well, the really old laptop I've was using finally is no longer usable.
> > > The screen broke.
> > >
> > > I moved to a new laptop a month ago. I don't need the old laptop
> anymore.
> > > But I wonder if I should pay the $60 - $120 for a new screen (I'm not
> > sure
> > > how much to pay someone to  do the repair).
> > >
> > > Is there some way to boot and run the laptop with an alternate screen?
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