Graphical Interface will not start

English Install/Boot/Login
#1

I’ve been wrestling with this problem for about a week now. When I boot from my hard disk, everything goes smoothly up until the point where X11 starts up (I see a black screen with a white cursor that I can move with the mouse). Then – nothing. No green light bulb. No Plasma 5 desktop. Nothing.

I thought I had resolved this problem by specifying “NOMODESET” in the GRUB2 parameters (there’s a recent thread on that topic). But that medicine doesn’t seem to be strong enough any longer.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! dcb

Oh – I’ve been using OpenSuse Linux since 2002 (release 9.0, as I recall). I ran 13.1 without much trouble until about a week ago, when I decided to upgrade to Tumbleweed. Since then it’s all been downhill. I’m beginning to regret my decision.

#2

All information about your graphics card is missing.

#3

Can you try to switch to a text console and back to GUI ?
todo: press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then Ctrl-Alt-F7

Lately I have to do this sometimes to see the desktop after the login.

Hendrik

#4

As I understand it, he does not even see a graphical login screen, thus there is still no desktop started. But the Ctrl-Alt-Fn works also when you are at the login screen.

#5

Oh – I’m sorry. I’m new here. Is this what you need? It’s from YAST2 Hardware module, and appears to describe my “graphics card”.



  P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0
  E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0
  E: ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE=82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (Desktop Board D865GBF)
  E: ID_PCI_CLASS_FROM_DATABASE=Display controller
  E: ID_PCI_INTERFACE_FROM_DATABASE=VGA controller
  E: ID_PCI_SUBCLASS_FROM_DATABASE=VGA compatible controller
  E: ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE=Intel Corporation
  E: MODALIAS=pci:v00008086d00002572sv00008086sd00004246bc03sc00i00
  E: PCI_CLASS=30000
  E: PCI_ID=8086:2572
  E: PCI_SLOT_NAME=0000:00:02.0
  E: PCI_SUBSYS_ID=8086:4246
  E: SUBSYSTEM=pci
  E: USEC_INITIALIZED=38293858

FWIW, I went ahead and re-installed Tumbleweed (32-bit) using a “network” DVD. At the moment my system seems to be working OK. If it fails again, I’ll be back!

#6

OK, thanks for the tip, Hendrik. Right now my system is running OK (I re-installed it today, and the big bugs seem to be fixed, although some little ones remain.)

I tried it just now and it worked like a champ. I’ll remember this procedure the next time I have the problem. Oh yeah – on a similar note, last week I had a problem where no GUI desktop would appear, but after 10 minutes or so a message would appear (“Loginctl is broken. Press alt + ctrl + f2 to switch to root prompt and enter LOGINCTL UNLOCK-SESSIONS, then press alt + ctrl + f7 to return to this screen.”) I followed the instructions, but that never seemed to help. Eventually I stumbled across the “NOMODESET” parameter in GRUB2, which solved the problem for about one day. :frowning:

Never a dull moment!