I have uninstalled my ati driver from the ati website and before re-installing the graphics driver from the dvd, I thought it wise to do a reboot.
Unfortunately suse (11, 32bit) won’t start now. I keep getting a black screen with lots of writing. I presume it to be the shell prompt. I can log in, but I don’t know, how to get suse back up or install the graphics driver to make it run again. I hope I don’t have to install everything again.
Thanks in advance.
BTW: which reasonable graphics card (approx. £70) runs well under Linux?
well, I have read somewhere in the forum to get the gui back and to reinstall the graphics driver one should try the command ‘sax2 -r -m 0=vesa’ as root, but I keep getting sax2 not found. I’ll try reinstalling suse.
Sounds like you uninstalled your “radeon” driver. And when you do that, I believe xorg also gets uninstalled, along with sax2. In any event, the result is that you can’t run sax2 any more.
The radeon driver is the stock driver that gets installed by OpenSuse when you install the OS. And when it’s gone, you have no default driver and you can’t run sax2 either (I know, I’ve done it too).
What you could have done, is when your system had finished booting, you could have logged in as root and typed “yast”. Then you could tab your way through YAST and reinstall the Radeon driver, along with Xorg and the other dependencies.
Then after exiting YAST run this command:
sax2 -r -m 0=radeon
That would get you back to square one, but you have probably reinstalled Open Suse by now so I don’t know why I’m telling you all this.
To me it sounds as if you are being taken to a failsafe
command prompt after xorg has failed to load the ati-
driver you uninstalled. And sax2 won’t run in failsafe
mode. So if you haven’t yet reinstalled I suggest you
boot the machine and at the Grub menu type init 3 and
hit enter, login as root and again try:
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
If that worked type init 5 and login as your user,
you should have a working, but maybe somewhat limited
graphics desktop.
