After a lot of problems I decided to change my HD en install opensuse 11.0 with Live Installer.
Opensuse is running quiet well… only 2 problems
After booting normaly screen is going to console and I must run STARTX to see the grafic screen!!
Second problem is: to shut down properly… I can only use sleep and hibernate. Shutdown and Restart are GREY !!!
Help please
Thats possibly because you need to run “startx” to get X window started. What happens if you try to shut down by opening a gnome-terminal / konsole and type:
su -c ‘shutdown -h now’
message “The system is going down for system HALT now”
And do it really !!!
Thats good news.
I believe the “graying out” of the shutdown in your X window is a function of your starting X via the startx command. You need to find a way to fix that, such that you don’t have to run startx each time, … at which point in time the shutdown should work properly, and you should not have to type that special shutdown command.
… before I forget, … if instead you wish to restart, simply type:
su -c ‘shutdown -r now’ … as you might have guessed, “h” stands for halt, and “r” stands for restart, in the “shutdown” command. And “now” means immediately. If instead you had typed:
su -c ‘shutdown -r 3’ your PC would have counted down for 3 minutes, and then resarted.
Some tips about Startx… Can I use a patch… to boot normaly? Or what can I do ? Using repairing option from DVD opensuse 11?
I found on Ubuntu forum in place of use Startx:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
Existe some equivalent for opensuse ?
When you get desktop running, go to system/lookandfeel/screensaver/power management tab - click power mgmt tab then general - actions - set the correct answer for “when the power button is pressed” = “shutdown”.
I alway set the suspend to “do nothing” since Linux still has not conquered suspend/sleep without Nirvana butting in.
Go to Yast/system/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager/ setting displaymanager_starts_xserver = yes
You also can check displaymanager_shutdown and keep “auto” or set where you want.
In Yast it is easy to config. You can also take the time to learn the command line.
ALL this parameters are OK !!! so no change in my problem >:(
Hello gvaneynde,
I do not know what hardware you have, especially processor and graphic card. Can you report it here.
For the shutdown problem you could try the boot parameter acpi=force. You can type it at the bottum of the grub selection screen if you want to try it one time.
Regards, Frans
It is a laptop… running with other HD on dual boot XP/openuse 10.0 without problem. I decided to upgrade to 11.0 on an other HD! I intented 10 times… LIVE CD and a complet version (DVD)always with problem (Grub/ no grafical screen) I used repairing option without succes :’( so I intend other time to install from the beginning with a DVD… also wihout succes… and finally I install from LIVE CD… and now it is running without problem !!! why !!! GOD KNOWS !lol! lol! thanks for help
gvaneynde wrote:
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> It is a laptop… running with other HD on dual boot XP/openuse 10.0
> without problem. I decided to upgrade to 11.0 on an other HD! I intented
> 10 times… LIVE CD and a complet version (DVD)always with problem (Grub/
> no grafical screen) I used repairing option without succes :’( so I
> intend other time to install from the beginning with a DVD… also wihout
> succes… and finally I install from LIVE CD… and now it is running
> without problem !!! why !!! GOD KNOWS !lol! lol! thanks for help
>
>
Gladto hear.
Regards,
Frans Leerink