> One of my laptops is finally dying. At least, the screen is; it has a
> beautiful magenta tint.

If the whole screen looks fine apart from the lack of a green component 
in every pixel, then I'd say the issue is before any of the electronics 
actually inside the screen. It might be worth re-seating the flat 
cable(s) between the screen and the main board in their connectors first 
to see if that fixes it. Or if you're unlucky there might be a break in 
the tracks on the actual cable - but that should be easy to test for (if 
you have a meter that can measure resistance) and you might be able to 
pick up a spare.

> I'm running openSUSE 13.1 on it (I upgraded two days ago) and I'm pretty
> sure it will run a second monitor through the VGA socket on the side. My
> question is, therefore, has anyone here tried to remove a laptop screen
> and then boot the machine?

I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work, but can't you just disable 
the internal screen in the OS?

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