Hi
I installed opensuse 11, with kde4, and everything was working fine. I logged in as root to do some system updates, and landed at the cli. However, when I tried to start the gui again, it failed. I typed startx, and it started the “grey” graphical interface. The problem is that I do not know how to change this back to the normal KDE interface, as it seems that the default has now been changed to this interface.
Regards Kobus http://forums.opensuse.org/images/smiliesnew/crying.png
I logged in as root to do some system updates
Not sure what you mean by this.
Your problem is graphics probably
What graphics do you have and what drivers did you have installed?
you could always:
If graphics driver gets messed up, type 3 in the boot line to get runlevel 3 - login as root
type
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
reboot
this should enable a display using vesa
Thanks for the feedback - I tried it, but it does not work - I think I might be starting the wrong GUI. Is there something like xconsole (it is a gray login screen, with a small terminal windows. After login, it opens a terminal windows “xconsole”
I may also mention, that I have checked the “DISPLAYMANAGER” setting, the default is set to “kdm4”. Kobus
KWin
is the default manager for kde4
I changed the setting to KWin, but the xconsole screen still starts. Kobus
We could really do with knowing what Graphics Card you have. Knowing that there was kernel update very recently, I suspect there is a connection. If you have a graphics card and know you installed the driver from the repo’s - tell us. More info…please
The system is a Dell Inspiron 9400, with a x1400 screen card, 2gb ram etc. The drivers seems correct.
from run level 3 as before but now type this
sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
reboot
if that doesn’t work
login as root
zypper in -f fgl*
Hi The zypper command does not work - it tells me that there is no fgl* installed and that there is nothing to do. I had a look at: Multiple Desktop Environments - openSUSE
How do you manually force the system to go to KDE? Which files do you have to change? On the xconsole screen which comes up as default there is no option to actually change to another interface. Regards Kobus
try
zypper in -f xorg-x11*
If you still end up with xterm
go su
type
yast2
or is it just yast? I can’t remember
then
Yast-/etc/syconfig editor-desktop-windowmanager set to plasma
If Plasma is not in the selection so you may just add it.
Also, there is another way of starting it from init 3 by running xinit and run plasma from the xterm that will appear when x starts. Downside if you exit the xterm so plasma too.