Just getting started with openSUSE for the first time and havent worked much with linux before.
I’ve installed from the live CD of openSUSE 11.2 KDE. Everything seemed to install fine. It rebooted after and will get past the openSUSE screen splash and the bar will load completely.
Then in will go into bash where it asks me to log in heres what it says a few lines before
"Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 2 of 2)
Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been
Failed services in runlevel 5:
Skipped services in runlevel 5:
Welcome to openSUSE 11.2 “Emerald” - Kernel 2.6.31.5-0.1-default (ttyl).
linux-ozdf login: (where I put the user name)
Password: (I then put in my password)"
Then it spits this out:
“Have a lot of fun…
No directory /home/username!
Loggin in with home = “/”
username@linux-ozdf:/>”
I know its probably extreemly simple but Im new to this.
It looks like your x-windows is not starting.
Log in and try starting the xwindows by typing:
startx and enter.
If x-windows gui doesn’t start, try logging in as root and type:
sax2 to configure the graphic x-windows.
What video card do you have?
When I type startx into bash it comes out of bash to a black screen with a gui box up in the left top corner with
“kstartupconfig4 does not exist or fails. The error code is 3. Check your installation”
so I click ok and it proceeds to a screen with colorful vertical lines.
I have a ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5975 PCIE graphics card, AUO CD514 LCD Monitor, all in a Dell Inspiron 1501 Laptop if that helps.
Typing in sax2 it says:
“your current configuration cannot be read in
No x server is running
will start own server if needed”
So it goes into the configuration editor and comes up with a prompt:
“SaX2 Suggestion
The currently-started graphics system is based on a suggestion made by saX2. If this is acceptable, click OK otherwise change the configuration.”
Clicking OK brings us to another beautiful screen of colorful bars (really they are starting to grow on me).
Clicking Change configuration it imports data and displays a GUI X11 Configuration Window
Thanks for the suggestions so far,
-Jim
Have a look at: Hardware - Installing ATI Drivers - openSUSE Forums for help on installing the ati drivers.
You can run yast from a command line in a terminal login and then add the ati software repository for ati.
Whoa there! As you all may know, I am no expert, but:
The OP wrote:
Then it spits this out:
“Have a lot of fun…
No directory /home/username!
Loggin in with home = “/”
username@linux-ozdf:/>”
This, surely is not to do with propritary ATi drivers, he should be able to get some GUI with generics?
My guess is something was not set up pre-install, and as his machine tells him, he has no /home/username to read configs from.
Surely he should cd along to /home and have a look in there to see what he has? If he started from liveCD, there might be a /home/linux ? (there was on mine) in which case could he not log in as linux > no password and try startx from there?
Is it possible that he made a typo in his username pre-install?