I’m running openSUSE 11.4 Gnome on a Lenovo T61 laptop with docking station and external monitor. Up till about four weeks ago, everything was running perfectly on my system. Then my Nvidia video card went bust, so I ordered a new motherboard which spots a Intel GMA X3100 chip (instead of the Nvidia one), which I used to replaced the old motherboard today. I’ve got two hard disks - 1 SSD for the root partition (nothing else) and 1 for /home (shared with XP).
I can boot into XP without any problem. But it’s a different story on openSUSE. (Dual boot using GRUB.)
When I try to boot into openSUSE, I see the green background, the horizontal progress bar, and then enter the console. I’m asked to enter my login and “Scan right index finger on UPEK TouchStrip”, which I do and this allows me to proceed. I can see my last login date and time (about four weeks ago) and the line “Have a lot of fun…”
What do I enter next?
I’ve Googled quite a bit for a couple of hours but I still cannot find the answer. I’ve managed to peform an update and tried “zypper ve”, the latter telling me that dependencies of all installed packages are satisfied. I’m guessing the problem is the change of video card (to the Intel GMA X3100).
As you can probably tell, I’m a newbie. Would greatly appreciate any help to get back into a GUI environment.
I’m running openSUSE 11.4 Gnome on a Lenovo T61 laptop with docking station and external monitor. Up till about four weeks ago, everything was running perfectly on my system. Then my Nvidia video card went bust, so I ordered a new motherboard which spots a Intel GMA X3100 chip (instead of the Nvidia one), which I used to replaced the old motherboard today. I’ve got two hard disks - 1 SSD for the root partition (nothing else) and 1 for /home (shared with XP).
I can boot into XP without any problem. But it’s a different story on openSUSE. (Dual boot using GRUB.)
When I try to boot into openSUSE, I see the green background, the horizontal progress bar, and then enter the console. I’m asked to enter my login and “Scan right index finger on UPEK TouchStrip”, which I do and this allows me to proceed. I can see my last login date and time (about four weeks ago) and the line “Have a lot of fun…”
What do I enter next?
I’ve Googled quite a bit for a couple of hours but I still cannot find the answer. I’ve managed to peform an update and tried “zypper ve”, the latter telling me that dependencies of all installed packages are satisfied. I’m guessing the problem is the change of video card (to the Intel GMA X3100).
As you can probably tell, I’m a newbie. Would greatly appreciate any help to get back into a GUI environment.
Sounds like you may need to uninstall the nVIDIA driver and you may still need to use nomodeset. You need to indicate if and how you might have installed the nVIDIA driver. You can enter just a 3 in the Grub OS boot loader menu to switch to run level three and run yast2 from the terminal prompt where you could uninstall any files added there for nVIDIA. If it was installed the hard way, run the installed with a -h to see how it can be uninstalled. Finally, you might need to remove or add in the nomodeset command as well, but not sure what you were doing before the switch. If all fails, it might be time to reinstall openSUSE, but juts mount and not format your /home partition.
I’ve tried all the steps you mentioned except the last. Unfortunately, they didn’t work. So it looks like I’ll have to take the last resort… reinstall the OS! I guess that’ll be OK if I’m real careful not to format the /home partition.
