KDE4 doesnt start

I have a little problem.
I have opensuse 11.0 on my Pc and the last time i bootet the grafical surface didnt start. I didnt change anything in the boot options the last time I used my Computer.

Can anyone help me with my problem.
Do I just need to change the bootoptions?
Or is there maybe a command to open the grafical surface?

thanks for your help :slight_smile:

You may need to reinstall you video driver if the kernel was updated.

How do I reinstall it without kde4?
Im quite a noob in such things…:frowning:

Opensuse 11.0 has the advantage of still having sax2.

Do you have any error message when you try to start GUI?

Is it KDE or Gnome you are using?

Try to login as root (only command line please) and type sax2. Does the Xserver start or does sax report an error. If it does, can you report it here?

What grafic card do you use (nividea, intel or amd?) What driver did you use (if you know that by chance).

Im ashamed to ask this but how can I send the logs to myself, so i could post them here. I already tried to do it with mail and mailx, but it didnt work…

All I can say at the moment is that sax2 recognizes my video card ( btw. an ATI Radeon 4870).

sorry, but I already told you, I’m new in these things, but I’m trying my best :wink:

Hi
Just open with kedit/gedit, select all and copy/paste to
http://pastebin.com/ eg;


gedit /var/log/Xorg.0.log


Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Kernel 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop
up 1:22, 2 users, load average: 0.36, 0.32, 0.67
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME

But i cant use an internet browser, because my KDE doesnt work. how can I insert the text?

If i can do a little recomendation, if u want to work inside a GUI, which is alot easier for us noobs, then ull have to start on run level 3.

On grub, erase everything thats written on the lower part of the scree, and just type in a “3” without quotes.

Then just login in the text mode, log in as root, and do this:

SaX2 -r -m 0=radeon

Thats a zero, not an O.
Reboot and u “should” be able to get KDE GUI

This worked just great. Now everything works just fine :slight_smile: Thanks very much to all of you!! lol!

What did you do to fix it? Did the run level 3 thing i told you?

Looks like the

SaX2 -r -m 0=radeon

fixed the problem, when i rebootet after this, all was fine again.

I put a 3 in the bootscreen, where im asked which OS i want to start (I have windows too), but I dont know if that was what you meant

The 3 in the boot screen he refered to is to determine to start in “runlevel 3”. An explanation of what is a runlevel you find it here](http://www.unixtools.com/linux-runlevels.html).
They are often quite useful. So for future use a fast lecture (it is a very short explanation) will do you good.

Just an advice, while doing SaX2 -r -m 0=radeon, you are now using the opensouce radeon driver, and not the ATI Catalyst.

Just go to ATI website and follow the instruction to properly install the Catalyst.