GUI not started after 15.2 installl as dual-boot over Win10

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 ...# lspci -nnk | grep -A3 VGA

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: AMD [AMD/ATI] Lucienne [1002:164cl] (rev c1)
Subsystem: AUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:18721]

                        Technology about 4 years old, so well supported.

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 Susepaste ....

Can’t read /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Couldn’t send from the same computer so the above is retyped.

Did you run susepaste from the installed system? If not, then the correct pathname depends on where the / filesystem was mounted. e.g., if the mount point was /mnt/, then it would be Code:
susepaste -n 40320 /mnt/var/log/Xorg.0.log
If yes, it could be any of:

  • X was not installed
  • X was never started
  • Xorg.0.log was written to ~/.local/share/xorg/ instead

Check whether Xorg..log exists in /var/log/ or ~/.local/share/xorg/ and susepaste what you find. Before doing so, try, logged in as root: Code:
systemctl isolate graphical
startx

(Background: This thread follows post 556543 about 15.3 not installing over Win10 to create a dual-boot notebook. When 15.3 did install–thanks to very helpful posts there–it stopped at the CLI and not GUI.)

Xorg.*.log was not found in the directories mentioned. /.local/share/xorg doesn’t exist.
As root, started Xorg and can work with the machine in graphics mode. However, after reboot, the command Xorg on the command line (as root, from /root) resulted in a blank screen. CtlAltDel left the screen black. Power cycled.

systemclt start Xorg

returns

Xorg.service not found

But startx goes to the GUI. Xorg is not listed in Yast/ServicesManager. A window now pops up regularly to switch to an external screen–but there is none. There is an open external DVD drive connected on a USB.

Starting a new thread in Networking because there is no network running (and no NM listed in ServicesManager.) I mention it here because it may be linked somehow to the GUI not running.

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Correct, /.local/share/xorg is not supposed to exist. ~/ is your homedir’s alias, so ~/.local/share/xorg/, which equates to /home/<userloginname>/.local/share/xorg, is where Xorg.*.log might be found.

As root, started Xorg and can work with the machine in graphics mode. However, after reboot, the command Xorg on the command line (as root, from /root) resulted in a blank screen. CtlAltDel left the screen black. Power cycled.

systemclt start Xorg

returns

Xorg.service not found

The service that normally starts Xorg is xdm.service, which in turn will start one of xdm itself, gdm, lightdm or sddm, (or some other display manager not from standard repos, e.g. kdebase3-kdm or tdm), which is where you would normally login.

But startx goes to the GUI.
Once you’ve done this logged in as root, there should be an Xorg.*.log in /var/log/, with a remotely possible alternative location of /root/.local/share/xorg/. If you manage to make startx work as a normal user, then look for it in /var/log/ or /home/<userloginname>/.local/share/xorg/.