osuse 11.2: problem at the start

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Hi, i’m at the first experience in linux world.
I downoloaded the iso and installed the program.
At the automatic configuration appeared a textual format insted of graphical.

Now the problem: when i switch on my pc and i chose opensuse, a texture appears, i think is that you call “terminal”. It requires my name and after the password. After, it says me “have a lot of fun” but the desktop doesn’t appeares!!!

if i try with the failsafe, it run.

Info:
amd dual core 64 amd 5000+
ge8500gt
2 ram of 1G

Thanks for the answers!

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This means that the x-server needs to be set up. It may well be st up, so try logging in at the terminal and typing:
startx followed by enter.
If no x-server starts, type:
sudo sax2
Enter the root password when asked.
This will let you set up the x-server.

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If i haveundertood, i have to start andto log with nick end password selected during installation. Is that the “root”?
After, if i try with “startx”, “fatal error, no screens found” appears.

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at the login i wrote “root” and the password of my user.
So a # appears.
I worte sax2. Later appears Sax:startup and at the end:

xc: sorry could not start configuration server

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i resolved.
i logged as root after i wrote:
init 3
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
init 5

Could someone explain me what does it mean and is it right?

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You need to run the sax2 program with root permissions. BUT you should only login as a regular user. Running X windows as root will within a short time likely end up in your X window being broken, possibly beyond repair, and it may mess up your permissions such that it will no longer function properly for a regular user.

Hence typically what I do is login to the text prompt as a regular user. Then after logged in, I type “su” (no quotes - enter root password) to switch users to the default, where the default if no other user is listed in the “su” command is the root/administrator. Note the prompt will change to a #.

Then I type the ‘sax2’ command. In your case you typed “sax2 -r -m 0=vesa” which means sax2 is to restart with a brand new /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and it is on graphic device 0 to use the “vesa” driver. Sax2 will then create an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

At that point, I type “exit” to get RID of root permissions. Note the prompt goes back to > . Its now safe to type “startx”.

Or alternatively, instead of typing “exit” above, I simply restart the PC by typing “shutdown -r now”.

Note in openSUSE-11.1, the ideal is one does not need an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and the graphics should be automatically detected and configured. However it is coming clear that this does not work for all hardware, and hence many users are being forced to run a program such as sax2 to create the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, in effect manually “spoon feeding” xorg the configuration to use for X windows.

I hope that sheds a bit less dirt on an evolving situation.

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Thank you.
Now have o to install nvidia drivers? If yes, how can i do?

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That question makes me think you did not review our two stickies for new users on openSUSE. If not, please do so now:

Now you will note there in the stickie, under drivers, a link to the openSUSE page on Nvidia: NVIDIA - openSUSE

… I always install the “hardway” (which for an average Linux user is not hard): NVIDIA/The hard way - openSUSE … when users have a problem with the “hardway”, it is typically because they skipped a step and tried to skim, as opposed to read, the wiki.