black out screen

English Install/Boot/Login
1

hi friends
i had installed open suse 10.2
when i boot up, before log in, a black screen appears and system stops there.
I have duel boot with windows XP.
Please help me.

2

Hi
What is your graphics card?

Else if you press ctrl+alt+F1 will get you to a console (text) login,
login as your user then;


su -
init 3
(Note you may have to press ctrl+alt+F1 again)

sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
(That's a zero, not a capital o)
Setup your monitor etc test and save, then run the command;
init 5 && exit

Now you should have a GUI.
press ctrl+alt+F1 again and type

exit

Then press ctrl+alt+F7 to return to the GUI

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 8 days 2:47, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.08, 0.09
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12

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I’m a newbie. I had the same problem too. What i did was, at grub screen i selected Failsafe and was able to get the gui. Then i installed nvidia driver as per NVIDIA - openSUSE. All went well after that.

Hope it helps but i suggest you to follow the above post.

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I have intel 945G onbord graphics card.

when black screen comes, by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1, it didn’t opened the console login.
When i selected failsafe, it prompted for log in text mode and not in gui.

then i loged in as user and typed the code given above but it gives error as improper command --r.

I reinstalled suse, but at the end, in hardware configuration, it detected my monitor as GSM LG Electronics 15". I have LG 700S/700E monitor which is 17".

Please help me.

5

Ratnadeep, try this:

  1. At grub screen select opensuse and just type 3. You’ll get text mode.

  2. Login as regular user.

  3. Type su and enter root password which is same as user password.

  4. Type sax2 -p which will return either 0 or 1.

  5. If 0, type sax2 -m 0=vesa. If 1, sax2 -m 1=vesa

  6. A screen configuration will open where you can adjust the screen resolution. Dont worry if it doesn show the exact resolution, you have not yet installed driver. Save it. Come back to text mode.

  7. Type exit

  8. Type start x

  9. You should get gui now. Install driver.