New user to OpenSUSE. My goal was to run a dual-boot system and only use Windows when absolutely necessary. Well, the installation for SUSE went great but every time I arrive at the green login screen, everything locks up. I can move my mouse and whatnot but I am not able to log in. I have tried rebooting the machine but am still stuck with an locked-up login screen in return.
Any ideas? I have plenty of hard disk space, 1 gig of memory and a 2.16 GHz Athlon 64-bit processor. I’m running KDE 3.4, previous version from 4.0.
Partitioning was automatic during setup. I had reserved my whole hard drive for the Linux install.
You mean kde 3.5 I hope, not 3.4. When the login screen locks up, can you hit Alt+F1 - if your keyboard is still working, it will take you to the console. If the keyboard is completely locked, then reboot and select the opensuse failsafe option at the boot menu. This will give you a non graphical boot screen.
Once you’re in the console, log in with root, then enter sax2 -r. Sax will pop up and configure your graphics card. Accept the default configuration if it looks good, then restart and you should be fine. Hope that works.
Right, 3.5. I’ll see if hitting Alt+F1 does the trick and log into the console. How do I log in with root? Do I just type in Root and enter my Root password?
>Right, 3.5. I’ll see if hitting Alt+F1 does the trick and log into the
>console. How do I log in with root? Do I just type in Root and enter
>my Root password?
Yes. But no capital letters in ‘root’ . . .
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In that case, just use the suggested configuration. You can fiddle with the sax settings after you get a working desktop. Once you have a working X server, you can pull up sax again by going into yast (find it in the kmenu under computer) > hardware > graphics card and monitor.
Dunno what graphics card you’re using, but it may be that the opensource driver for the card isn’t quite jiving with the default resolution. You could try installing the proprietary driver for the card and see if it works better.
Quickest way to do this would be to go into yast software manager (install software icon under the kmenu > computer), choose repositories > repository manager, then select Add > Community Repositories. The repos for both nvidia and ati can be found there.
Choose the repository for your card and finish out of the repo manager. This will take you back to the software installer where you can search for either nvidia or fglrx (depending on your card) and install the corresponding driver. Reboot, just to be safe.
You can pull up sax after that and check the default resolution.
Quickest way to do this would be to go into yast software manager (install software icon under the kmenu > computer), choose repositories > repository manager, then select Add > Community Repositories. The repos for both nvidia and ati can be found there.
Which file do I download? I have an ATI Radeon X800- There are repositories for ATI “fglrx” driver kernel module… uhm… I haven’t got a clue what any of this stuff is.
