I upgraded to opensuse 12.3 from 12.2 with install CD. upgrade didn’t go smoothly , it hang several times, I had to restart.
At the end I don’t get GUI login , just text login and above it error message :
radeon_uvd
Can’t load firmware “radeon/CYPRESS_uvd.bin”
if I log in as root I can startx and KDE comes up as usual.
Thanks for you help
If X/KDE works as root then your problem can’t be caused by the missing firmware I think.
Looks more like a permission problem.
There was a bug in plymouth that maybe could cause this. Have you installed all updates?
Run “zypper up” in text mode or use YaST->Online Updates either in text mode or after “startx”.
Does booting to recovery mode work? You can select this in “Advanced options” in the boot menu.
Then please do this:
do a normal boot until you get stuck in text mode
then reboot and boot to “recovery mode”, login (if recovery mode doesn’t work either, just login as root in text mode and run “startx”)
Upload the file “/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old” to SUSE Paste or similar and post a link here
In addition, you could disable plymouth and see if it helps:
at the boot menu press ‘e’ on the keyboard
search for a line starting with “linux” and append “plymouth.enable=0” to it
press F10 to boot
But on second thought, since you mentioned installation problems, maybe just kdm or some package it depends on was not installed/upgraded correctly?
Do you get any output when you run “systemctl start xdm” in text mode as root?
What does “systemctl status xdm” say?