Hi all, been a very long time since I have been on here!! Anyway my HD went down a few days ago, so I bought a new one and thought I would download Opensuse 12.2 to go with a fresh install of Windows 7. I installed windows first and then installed Linux, however I am unable to boot into the Linux desktop? All I get is a consol window(the install had completed). It has been years since I have used consol and for the life of me I cant remember any commands. Any ideas on whats happening or how I can boot up the desktop screen?
On 01/07/2013 02:46 PM, MW0DBB wrote:
> Any ideas on whats happening
> or how I can boot up the desktop screen?
welcome back, but no error messages during install??
did you check the downloaded iso with md5 sum before you burned the
disk? and then did you, boot from the disk and have it self test itself
(select “Check Installation Media” and NOT “Installation” first?
The installation went all ok, I even selected manual configuration so I could check my settings. There was no error messages during install however it did hang for a good 20 mins when detecting previous installs of Linux. I have had problems before when booting into linux on old versions as I have had graphis conflicts? The card I’m using is a ATI 4890.
I do not think a normal user has permission to use startx under openSUSE. What desktop environment or package set did you try to install? Did you try using a display manager like xdm/lightdm?
On 01/07/2013 05:46 PM, MW0DBB wrote:
> This is what I get if I do startx.
so, linux is not a dead operating system…nor one controlled by huge
corporations moving at a snails pace (but a HIGH profit snails pace)…
that is, things have changed…lots and lots of the stuff you remember
from last decades Linux (or SUSE) don’t work like you expect…
pick up a new ‘thinking cap’ and do lots of reading (the other two are
right–startx doesn’t work like it used to…forget it! trouble is, i’m
still running 11.4 Evergreen because i’ve gone to the trouble or TIME to
understand all that has changed in the 12 series, but these terms are important: systemd and grub2)
On 2013-01-07 19:26, MW0DBB wrote:
>
> I installed kde which is what I normally go for!
>
> When I did su, I was able to go into the desktop with startx but it
> looked like the graphics driver was not installed?
That sentence is not clear to me.
Do yo login in text mode as user, then type “su”, then “startx”?
Two errors. One, do not use “su”, use “su -”.
Two, instead login as root directly while in text mode.
Or, use startx as user by changing what is documented in the permissions
file.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
On 2013-01-07 21:46, MW0DBB wrote:
>
> I have to use su to be able to use startx.
As I said, su will not work correctly, you have to add a dash. Or login
directly as root in text mode. Or change the “/etc/permissions.local”
file, see comments inside.
> Nothing seems to work
> otherwise. How can I get it to go directly into desktop instead of text
> mode?
Well, if startx works, then see the logs. If it doesn’t, startx will say
why, probably.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
John-PC:~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | tail
15.432] (II) evdev: MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (mceusb): initialized for relative axes.
15.432] () MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (mceusb): (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
15.432] () MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (mceusb): (accel) acceleration profile 0
15.432] () MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (mceusb): (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
15.432] () MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (mceusb): (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
15.433] (II) config/udev: Adding input device MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (mceusb) (/dev/input/mouse1)
15.433] (**) MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (mceusb): Applying InputClass “LocalKeyboard”
15.433] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
15.433] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
213.664] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
John-PC:~ #
/etc/permissions.local
This file is used by SuSEconfig and chkstat to check or set the modes
and ownerships of files and directories in the installation.
In particular, this file will not be touched during an upgrade of the
installation. It is designed to be a placeholder for local
additions by the administrator of the system to reflect filemodes
of locally installed packages or to override file permissions as
shipped with the distribution.
Format:
<file> <owner>:<group> <permission>
Please see the file /etc/permissions for general usage hints of the
/etc/permissions* files.
Please remember that logfiles might be modified by the logfile
rotation facilities (e.g. logrotate) so settings entered here might
be overridden. Also devices files (/dev/*) are not static but
managed via udev so this file can’t be used to modify device
permissions either.
suexec is only secure if the document root doesn’t contain files
writeable by wwwrun. Make sure you have a safe server setup