KDE4 on OpenSUSE 11.3 does not start

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Hi, guys,

My KDE4 stopped booting after installing the last (11.7) ATI driver and uninstalling it later (display turned off at all while booting).
I get a login screen, though. When I enter my password and press ENTER, it tries to start but returns to the login screen in a couple of seconds.

Here’s a snippet from kdm.log:

X.Org X Server 1.8.0
Release Date: 2010-04-02
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX
Current Operating System: Linux HID.aviel.ru 2.6.34.10-0.2-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-07-20 18:48:56 +0200 x86_64
Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS543225L9A300_090624FBCE06LKFLLV3H-part6 apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe brokenmodules=b43,ssb vga=0x317
Build Date: 07 June 2011 01:44:15AM

Current version of pixman: 0.18.0
Before reporting problems, check X.Org Wiki - Home
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (–) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: “/var/log/Xorg.0.log”, Time: Sun Aug 14 11:16:22 2011
(==) Using config file: “/etc/X11/xorg.conf.install”
(==) Using config directory: “/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d”
(EE) Failed to load module “vboxvideo” (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) GLX error: Can not get required symbols.
(EE) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
(EE) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
(EE) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
(EE) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
(EE) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
(EE) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
QFont::fromString: Invalid description ‘Serif,20,5,0,50,0’
QFont::fromString: Invalid description ‘Sans Serif,10,5,0,50,0’
QFont::fromString: Invalid description ‘Sans Serif,10,5,0,75,0’
Driver not XRANDR 1.2 capable, ignoring DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_* setting

Thanks

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You could rename the xorg config file and restart to see if that helps as openSUSE does not need an xorg.conf file to work:

mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.sav

You could add in the kernel load option **nomodset **which you can type in manually before you press the enter key. You could try the failsafe entry to see if that works. You can enter the lsmod command to determine what video driver is being loaded:


lsmod | sort | less

Just a few thoughts on the subject.

Thank You,

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It could be because you have special desktop effects enabled in your KDE and when you go back to the older radeon or radeonhd driver ( ? - you did not stated which) there is a problem with special desktop effects and compositing. You could try to disable compositing by booting to run level 3 (ie a full screen text mode) and then edit ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc:


[Compositing]
Enabled=false

and reboot a try again. Does that work ?

You could also (while in run level 3) run YaST in text mode (type yast) which will bring up the text/ncurses version of YaST which you can then use to create a new user account. Then try to login as the new user in KDE. Does that work ?

4

Thanks you very much, guys. I solved this problem just by installing the previous version of ATI driver.

5

Thanks you very much, guys. I solved this problem just by installing the previous version of ATI driver.

Happy to hear of your success. You might want to look at the following thread:

Upgrading ATI driver with atiupgrade - Page 8

Thank You,