Did a clean install with 11.2 after being very impressed with the LiveCD. After installation process finished, laptop booted up and I had a green screen, no icons and a mouse cursor.
REALLY liked the way the OS performed on the LIVECD and would like to give it a real shot. Any suggestions? I can install Fedora 11, Ubuntu, Madriva and Mint Linux with no problem on the same Toshiba laptop.
Thanks 
With the latest openSUSE release using a new Xorg version that utilizes autodetection of hardware via hal, xorg.conf is often not required. However, for some graphics hardware this is bound to be problematic, and manual configuration may be necessary (via sax2 from runlevel 3).
Some questions:
Strange. Could it be you are seeing only part of the desktop? What happens when you press <alt><f2> ? Do you get a command dialog box? If so, type âkonsoleâ or âxtermâ. Then inside the terminal type âxrandrâ. What does it tell you about your resolution? Next to what resolution is the â*â ?
Iâve never encountered this, so Iâm just proposing some âoff the topâ of my head investigative ideas.
Note if you get a terminal, you can shutdown with: su -c âshutdown -h nowâ
Boot up seemed to be normal.
I didnât try booting into failsafe mode
Graphic card is an Intel 4500 that shares memory. Not a gaming card.
Going to reinstall and pay more attention to it this time. Live CD really is amazing. Hope to see the desktop after this install attempt. 
Hmmm ⌠I donât think re-install is the solution, unless you were deliberately messing with things during the 1st install.
IMHO you have a better chance of some quick investigations (such as I proposed) and try the failsafe boot and also try the vesa graphic driver. We can give you the commands to switch to that driver.
Did reinstall, all went fine. Am typing from desktop while updates are being downloaded. Didnât do anything different this time around from 1st install. Just my lucky day, I suppose. Thanks for your time. Peace
Congratulations, and glad to read it worked this time around.
Its strange, you encountered that unusual result the 1st time.
Might have been a hiccup, I have had installs like this.
First time glitch second time no issue.
I have just experienced the same problem. Install went fine and system seems to work. I even accepted an update. But no folders, start menu, tool bar: nothing but the attractive green screen. I will try a few of the measures outlined above and would love to receive an easy solution. It certainly seems to be a problem with 11.2.
I have read the instructions from the Global Moderator. I can get the konsole and discovered that the resolution is 1920x1200, which is exactly right for my Samsung 24" monitor. It is as if I am not seeing the entire desktop. The mouse works.
Continuing to try to solve this: I did a complete reinstallation and got the same results of just a green screen. I booted to failsafe and got the same results of just a green screen. It is hard to understand how this distribution can be getting such good reviews in light of the fact that this weird video issue makes it entirely unusable. I would love to try an easy solution.
:)Solution discovered!
The installation was picking up information from the distribution previously installed on this drive. The solution required reinstalling and choosing the partition options so that all previous partitions were deleted. Quite an annoyance that the installer saved information from previous installations.
wkuntze, Did you read the 11.2 release notes?
One of the changes from 11.1 to 11.2 was 11.2 went to a more automatic graphic configuration. ⌠Clearly it does not work all the time, based on your experience.
There are openSUSE tools you can run that will likely fix this quite easily, but the problem is you are not aware of them.
What graphics hardware does your PC have? ATI ? Intel ? nVidia ? what model # ?
I think Iâm experiencing the same issue: OS11.2 boots fine, but then I get only the desktop and the mouse cursor, nothing else; but I discovered that if I reset X (with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace), I get the select user window, click on my username and finally I can see everything.
ÂżAny ideas? itâs practically nothing, but openSUSE 11.2 is almost perfect except for this tiny glitch, and I would like my system to autostart my session as usual.
Thanks in advance!
Hmm. I am having a similar intermittent problem. Occasionally, say every third or fourth boot, I get stuck on a green screen on bootup.
I installed OpenSuse 11.2 over Ubuntu 9.04.
To get out of it, I have to do a ctrl-alt-F1 and reboot.
I am also having some hangups on shutdown. I have also had a few system crashes which I never had before.
I have a Lenovo R61e with this integrated graphics card:
Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller
For the most part, the system is running very well.
I donât want to reinstall. What can I do to troubleshoot this?
You could change from the âintelâ graphic driver to the âvesaâ driver for a few weeks, and monitor for re-occurrence.
I also have this problem with a Dell 2400. Interestingly, icons are visible just before the program turns operation over to the operator. At that time, the screen only displays the background splash and the keyboard is disabled. The mouse continues to function. The screen resolution looks correct; the arrow-cursor is stopped at the edges of the display. However, no further operation (Function keys or mouse clicks) elicit a response. Rebooting and attempting a recovery leads to numerous errors such as announcement that the format on the disk drive is incorrect (?). The Dell 2400 previously was functional with SuSE 11.1. Memory tested ok. Two different installation DVSâs were verified and used with the same result (the pre-release version and the current release version of 11.2). Sorry the report is so vague, but would take quite a bit of additional time to document all the anomalies.
Even though the resolution is correct, it reads to me that it is not correct somewhere (that being speculation on my part).
Is this a clean install, or are you using the /home from a previous install ? Try creating a new user (you can do that by running yast in run level 3). ⌠And then log in as the new user. Does the new user have this problem?
Did you try booting to run level 3 and force a different graphic driver?
Yes, installation of 11.2 is a clean install (after attempting an upgrade from 11.1 which yielded the same result). From observation it appears the login window is written to the screen, but at the point of allowing key-entry, the window (and any other display data) disappears and only the background is displayed. CTL-ALT F2 works (but see below) but havenât found any other keyboard combination that provokes a response. The signon screen displays âAutomatic Loginâ just before the entire window dissapears. Something has changed; it is now no longer possible to use the keyboard to access the terminal command prompt.
What can you tell us about the graphic hardware on this Dell? I assume you joined this thread, because you felt you had something very similar in common with the title: " Clean install = no desktop just green screen " (other wise it is very confusing ) so did you follow the other suggestions in this thread such as using a VESA graphic driver ? Have you tried with a different user account ?