I lost my gui after doing a update to what would be my guess the kernel . Now everytime I start the computer it would come up with a prompt like command screen asking for my login and such. Ive already tried using sax2 under root but error with unable to load my nvidia driver. The only time the gui comes up is under failsafe mode but non of the icons or anything works other then when I push alt ctrl delete the shutdown/logout menu comes up and Im able to signout and shutdown other than that nothing works or nothing I tried works
Have you tried:
Pause the boot by moving the down arrow, then back up to the default boot. But now press backspace, it should delete any text where you can see: vga=0x…
Remove all text and now type just the number:
3
and hit enter
at the login type your user name and then password
now type:
su
then the root password
now type this:
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
(N.B. the 0 is a zero not a letter)
now reboot: type: reboot
if you don’t get a gui login
login as user at cli and try this at the cli
startx
> I lost my gui after doing a update to what would be my guess the kernel
we, as a community need to SOLVE this problem for our users…how do
we do that???
there is just NO sense in allowing this to go on and on…
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platinum
Where did that come from? Are you suggesting we are not trying or are you being more Linux specific in that this is a fairly common problem that needs a fix?
sorry Carl, you misunderstood me…everyone here knows you do all you
can to help folks FIX an update-broken machine…
i want to fix the system that breaks it in the first place…
the system (upgrade and need to compile a graphics driver) that
allows a kernel update to break a persons Linux just needs to be
re-thought…
if YaST can’t be ‘taught’ to do it all, then it at least needs to be
‘taught’ to NOT update the kernel if it can’t turn a working machine
over to the user…
it should ‘look’ and see if there is a proprietary driver that has
to also be compiled and installed…and, if it can’t do that then
it should NOT do the kernel update…
see?
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platinum
Agree with you there. Guess it’s one for the wish-list at bugzilla.
Not something I have to think hard about myself, but it’s water off a ducks back to me.
Guess these windows guys just don’t get it, I mean how often does Win get a kernel update
I did as you suggested with sax2 but that didn’t work how would I go about to login at cli? sorry Im still new to linux and thanks for the help
When you boot, at the green menu - pause the timer by moving the down arrow. Now move the select back to the default 11.1 option and press backspace until the text lower down is deleted. Now just type the number 3
and press enter
You will see text scrolling by and eventually a text prompt to login:
Just enter your username and hit enter
then your password and hit enter
Now type: su
hit enter
now your root password
hit enter
Now type this and hit enter:
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
type: reboot
Doesn’t work this error comes up
wrong module syntax
syntax:-m CardNr=Carmodule ,…]
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
That’s a zero not a letter
zero=vesa
you know that?
yeah I knew that
i82fast wrote:
> Doesn’t work this error comes up
> wrong module syntax
> syntax:-m CardNr=Carmodule ,…]
that error comes at what point in caf4926’s instructions:
down arrow
type the number 3
and press enter
enter your username and hit enter
then your password and hit enter
Now type: su
hit enter
now your root password
hit enter
Now type this and hit enter:
Code:
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
type: reboot
and please report the exact error you see (i ask because according
to google you are the only person in the history of the universe to
ever see “syntax:-m CardNr=Carmodule” from a Linux kernel…
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platinum
I do agree something should be done about this. I don’t agree on going to VESA, since the OP had a working xorg.conf.
Boot the system into runlevel 3, by adding ‘init 3’ on the options line in the bootmenu. At the console’s login prompt, login with normal username and password. Then do next steps, leave the ++ marked lines:
mkdir NVIDIA
cd NVIDIA
++ a folder NVIDIA is created in /home/YOURUSERNAME and entered
++ now on a 32bit system do:
wget ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/185.18.36/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.36-pkg1.run
++ on a 64bit system do:
wget ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/185.18.36/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.36-pkg2.run
++ this downloads the driver from the NVIDIA site, into current folder
++ now on 32bit do:
su -c ‘sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.36-pkg1.run -q’
++ on 64bit do:
su -c ‘sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.36-pkg2.run -q’
++ Enter rootpassword when asked for. The installer will start, Accept the license, hit OK when asked for, until finished.
++ After install, you have to configure the driver, since you changed it for VESA:
su -c ‘sax2 -r -m0=nvidia’
++ Enter rootpassword. MIND: after the -m is a zero. Click Change Configuration, check values for videocard and monitor resolition. Save and exit.
++ Driver is now installed and configured. On next kernel update there’s no need for the sax2 command, since Xorg is already configured to use the nvidia driver.
++ Now we need to change to runlevel 5 to get your gui back:
su -c ‘init 5 && exit’
++ Enter rootpassword and you should be presented with the kdm login screen.
Good luck.
thanks knurpht you suggestion worked. and platinum the erorr I got was
SaX: wrong module syntax…
SaX: Syntax: -m CardNr= CardModule ,…] after entering sax2 -r -m 0=vesa