You must not have followed oldcpu’s instructions carefully enough. The ‘command not found’ message for sax2 usually means you are not root. Make sure you type
su <press enter>
Then type your root password (no characters will be shown when typing passwords) and hit enter.
Your prompt in the terminal should turn red if you have done this properly. Like this:
linux:/home/Iomex4
When you are root, you can then carefully follow oldcpu’s instructions.
OK, maybe sax2 is not on the liveCD for 11.3.
Then as before, in run level 3, login as a regular user. NOT AS ROOT ! Once logged in, type “su” (no quotes - enter root password) to switch to user root/admin. Then as user root/admin, BEFORE you try to either the “nv” (nvidia) driver or the “vesa” driver install sax2 into RAM.
Do this immediately after switching to user root, by typing:
zypper install sax2
needless to say, you need a working internet net connection for this to work.
Then after sax2 is installed, proceed to run those commands requiring sax2.
you need a working internet net connection for this to work
i have a wifi and broadband connection … i dont now how to connect if i view desktop hardly … any solution in text mod or level 3 ?
i think i will buy version 11.2
Can you not plug in to a wired Internet connection to test this?
The same is true for an installation. Your installation will go MUCH better if you can plug in to a wired Internet connection during the installation.
not now
Broadcom wireless may not be so easy to working under wireless. In truth, I do not know. The packman packagers provide a package for the driver for opensuse 11.2: PackMan :: Informationen zum Paket broadcom-wl … but there is more than 1 make of broadcom so that may or may not work.
I suspect IF you do install 11.2 on your PC then you will need to go to our wireless subforum to get help: Wireless - openSUSE Forums
Good luck !
thank you all 
Sax2 is not on the live kde disk. It has to be down loaded separately.
When you installed did you get the automatic configuration on your first boot? There is a problem with the live cd’s both kde4 and gnome. If not try doing an alt f1 if you get text then ctrl ‘c’
that should get you into the text configuration module.
Sax2 is not on the live kde disk. It has to be down loaded separately.
can you give me link to download sax2 to config my display
thanks
Did you run your initial automatic configuration yet? That should happen right after your first reboot after you install.
If so while in text mode and as root (oldcpu told you how in an earlier post) Type in yast hit enter that will give you the text yast.
go to network devices>network settings. check the traditional with
if up box. configure your wireless. when finished with yast
Enter the command iwconfig wlan0 essid (the name of your wireless) then the command ifup wlan0 ping something to see if you have network connection then
zypper install sax2 then zypper install sax2gui
But if the automatic configuration hasn’t run doing the ctrl c from a text console and running it would probably solve a lot of your problems
oldcpu told me do not install opensuse before solve the problem
I don’t recall saying anything about not installing before some problem was solved. I looked above for a post where I supposedly stated that and can’t find that either. Now I know my memory is bad, and my eye sight is also bad, but perhaps you could be so good as to point that out to me so that I can try to better understand this old age affliction that I have ? 
In truth though, it is becoming more and more clear to me that you should NOT be messing around with a milestone release, as you do not know openSUSE and it appears you do not know Linux all that well yet either.
Possibly you can take your PC to a wired connection, and install openSUSE-11.2 (and not milestone3) from there?
see post #11
should install first ؟
and your replay " post #12 "
The real big problem last time was you could not boot to run level 3 (ie to a full screen text mode). BEFORE you install to a hard drive, IMHO you should confirm with the liveCD that you can AT LEAST boot to run level 3. If you can not, then do NOT install
hehe
ok, that is true. Did you not confirm that though?
I thought you WERE subsequently able to boot to run level 3 and hence that statement was met, and thus not applicable !!
sorry oldcpu for understand your answer before that .
How did you get to install the nvidia driver?
I just installed M3 from DVD. The installation went fine until the desktop was started. I was greeted with more colours than I ever thought the video card is capable of producing. I thought, great! if only I could recognize a few icons and the fonts!
I switched to runlevel 3 and tried to install the Vesa driver using Sax2 but that failed because they killed Sax2 in M3 I think. So what’s the other possibility of using Vesa? I only know the Sax2 command.
I rebooted in safe mode, downloaded the nVidia beta driver and tried to install it in runlevel 3 but that also failed. I got a message that I should compile the kernel source to match the Kernel. The kernel Source and other related packages (including make, gcc etc.) are installed so I don’t know what is the problem. Apart from that I don’t have the vibes to recompile the kernel right now since it takes so long.
Maybe you could share your methods of installing the nVidia drivers with us.
I really want to test M3 but this video driver fiasco is getting on top of my nerves.
Well I installed M3 from the DVD, and I booted to an LXDE desktop in M3 with no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. The DVD has sax2.
LXDE ran poorly because of GCC bugs, and also possibly because of the driver chosen when there is no /etc/X11/xorg was either the nv or noveau or vesa. I confess I was a bit lazy, and I do not know which as I simply immediately rebooted to run level 3, and installed the proprietary nVidia driver “the hardway” (which is not hard).
Check your kernel versions. Its possibly you unknowingly applied an update, or missed an application.
Please boot that M3 again, but first grab a digital camera, and then boot to run level 3 and then once logged in as a regular user type in run level 3:
rpm -qa '*kernel*'
and take a picture of that , and post on ImageBam - Fast, Free Image Hosting and Photo Sharing the pix, and post here the output url from imagebam.
Also, as opposed to installing gcc, make, automake, etc … I recommend just install under YaST > Software > Software Management the “pattern” known as “base development”. That will ensure you are not missing anything associated with gcc. But you still need to install kernel-source, kernel-syms, and linux-kernel-headers (if it exits in 11.3 - I can’t remember and I’m not at a linux PC right now).
I just installed it the standard way I install a proprietry nvidia driver (the hardway - which is not hard).
… as noted the proprietary driver installed ok for me with no problem. I note now a problem has just been fixed tht impacted various M3 users with the “nv” opensource driver.
Bug report is here:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577140
fix is to install a new milestone3 from factory xorg-x11-driver-video-7.5-2.1 rpm (being in factory, the version number may have changed by the time you read this).
https://bugzillafiles.novell.org/attachment.cgi?id=340836
This is what I was talking about 
fix is to install a new milestone3 from factory xorg-x11-driver-video-7.5-2.1 rpm (being in factory, the version number may have changed by the time you read this).
thank you
Wow, great, I have the same. I have had worst in the past though. Where you couldn’t even see that icons exist on the desktop. it doesn’t happen if you boot in safe mode but you can’t really work in safe mode.
The new and improved Xorg does recognize the video card but it should at least install the Vesa driver if an nvidia driver is not installed.
I still haven’t been successful in installing the vesa driver or the nvidia driver from the nvidia download page.