I am using my OpenSuse 11.2 in VMware Workstation. I didn’t do anything to it and when I open it, there is no more GUI coming up. Only command line interface came up. Can you please help how can I change this back to GUI???
Thanks a lot…
I am not familiar with vmware workstation, have you tried typing startx at the CLI ?
Also please post the output of
df -h
(from within your SuSE of course) and describe what you might have done before you didn’t do anything to it. 
If you updated to a new kernel you may have to reinstall the video drivers from the addons.
When i typed startx,
it shows FATAL:Module nVidia not found
Fail to load the nVidia kernel module
No drivers available
Fatal server error:
No screens found
when i typed df -h
filesystem Sized Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 12G 4.3G 6.7G 40% /
udev 372M 184K 371M 1% /dev
/dev/sda3 17G 654M 16G 4% /home
Before this happens, i installed nVidia driver. I am new to linux so i do not know whether the installation was proper or not.
thanks…
pls help
gogalthorp’s suggestion looks like your answer.
You typed,
I didn’t do anything to it and when I open it, there is no more GUI coming up.
and now,
Before this happens, i installed nVidia driver.
Something like this should have been in your first post!
To put it politely!
You can not use a NVIDIA driver in a VM. The VM does not see the real hardware it is virtual. Unistall the NVIDIA driver.
Only use the VMware add ons. And no you will not have 3D acceleration in any VM.
how can i uninstall the nvidia driver from CLI???
where you installed it with ‘sh NV…run’, you can uninstall the driver with ‘sh NV…run --uninstall’. If driver is installed via Yast, uninstall it via Yast.
how can i uninstall via yast in CLI???
thanx
Type yast at the command line as root.
Thanks guys, especially gogalthorp. thanks for ur help…
I got it!!! it is running back in GUI.