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isryman

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Registered: 2022-03-24

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arch installation on broken laptop

hi i am trying to install arch on a broken laptop, it basically have a broken screen(totally broken and the frame is out of it and lost) it has kali linux installed and i want to switch to arch i connect it using hdmi cable to my lg tv and i don't have any monitor
is there is any possible way to switch? as the tv doesn't show the bios or anything related to the installation it only shows no signal

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: arch installation on broken laptop

1st of all: what kind of laptop? If it's a hybrid graphics one, the HDMI output might be connected to the dGPU.

You can select outputs:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/fb/modedb.rst
and map framebuffer consoles to drivers ("fbcon=map:<0123>")
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt

Both will require you to alter the kernel commandline.

Getting X11 to display on the HDMI output (given the GPU/CRT principally still works) should be trivial, so if you've kali installed and can maybe ssh into it, that should be easy game.

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isryman

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Registered: 2022-03-24

Posts: 2

Re: arch installation on broken laptop

1st of all: what kind of laptop? If it's a hybrid graphics one, the HDMI output might be connected to the dGPU.

You can select outputs:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/fb/modedb.rst
and map framebuffer consoles to drivers ("fbcon=map:<0123>")
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt

Both will require you to alter the kernel commandline.

Getting X11 to display on the HDMI output (given the GPU/CRT principally still works) should be trivial, so if you've kali installed and can maybe ssh into it, that should be easy game.

I have hp probook 4540s with intel integrated graphics card, i don't have big experiences in linux so can you explain more

seth

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From: Won't reply 2 private help req

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 76,706

Re: arch installation on broken laptop

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_parameters
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/OpenSSH

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