heres my setup
phenom 9850
2 3870x2 vid cards
8gb ram
74 gb hdd
160 gb hdd
and the regulars
btw, im using kde4
i installed opensuse 11 on my desktop and i got a gui (?) or picture once in failsafe but other than that…
failsafe gives me like a gray/black screen with my mouse pointer. i can move my mouse but cant do anything.
regular opensuse loads a black/white text screen that goes through doing a bunch of stuff and gives me a login. once logged in, it stays in the text based screen.
im sry if i dont understand your advice but i am a complete n00b. can anyone please help me?
I thought I saw this post earlier today and was wondering where my reply went. Then I realized I had to close my browser before the reply posted.
Anyway. When you get the black and white text screen (that’s your console by the way), log in and enter sax2 -r. It should pull up sax, which will automatically configure your display settings. You probably want to accept the default suggestions. After you close yast, reboot and enjoy your gui.
You can do something like this:
In the text login prompt (init 3), you may login as your user (weezymagic) and use your user password. As soon as you’re login as your user, to have a root privilege, at the prompt type su at the password prompt use your root password, then do the necessary command that you have to exercise.
ok. i dont hink im getting it.
i login as user weezymagic and my password is say weezy. once logged, i type su and then the password prompt comes again and i type weezy and then i can do sax2 -r?
that doesnt sound right
Looks like you are in init 5, only thing it can not initialize the gui so it fails and goes back to the text mode. You may repeat the exercise above and while su(super user), type init 3 hit enter and do the corresponding sax command.
If it works, type init 5 and see if it will give you the graphical user login.
when i am super user and i type ‘init 3’, it goes fine. when i type ‘sax2 -r’, i ge the same thing as init 5 but in the begining, it says there is no x server running or something along those lines…