KDE not loading.

English Install/Boot/Login
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hey there, i’ve run into a bit of a problem while doing my first openSUSE install today.

The graphical install goes fine all the way up until it finishes the “Performing Installation” process. Then the screen goes blank. Tried each display option for the install, and finally the text option got me through to completion.

So now I’ve gotten to the command line, and when i try to startkde, i get the message “$DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server.”

I’m not well versed in linux yet, so a lot of these messages don’t yet mean much to me. In the course of messing around with this I’m getting the feeling that it’s Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 that’s causing the problem here.

Does anyone have any suggestions for me? I wan’t to get this running on my laptop first, and my desktop later. I should have know the laptop would be the harder one, hehe.

Thanks guys,
Lloyd

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Have look here
openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users - openSUSE Forums

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yeah I had a peek through there, but things don’t jump out at me as obvious things to try since linux is still a little foreign to me. None of us like to go on a wild goose chase, hehe.

But I’ll try the xorg.conf solution in there and see where i get with that.

Thanks for the direction, I’m sure I’ll be back in a bit, hehe.

Lloyd

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I’m not sure but the i950 has issues. You may be forced to use vesa

sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
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Ok i got through that easy enough, but after i run the sax2 command, it says no x-server is running, and that sax will attempt to start it’s own server.

I get a whole bunch of “could not import files” and then at the end a “sorry could not start configuration server”.

The log file states,

“Fatal server error:
no screens found”

Any ideas?

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Just tried vesa, still got errors including a new one about d-bus. Ended up in some kind of gui graphics setup.

I clicked ok and ended up back in the command line, KDE still won’t load though. Trying to get back into that gui now. There was a configuration option that I didn’t get to click last time, hehe.

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ok I got back into that gui and ran the configure although I left the options where they were. Rebooted as per that tutorial and it booted into KDE.

Thanks very much for your help, I guess I should have caught that solution when i read through that the first time.

Thanks again,
Lloyd