I had installed OpenSuSE 11.0 a few months ago and have been very happy with it so far.
However, I had recently bought a new graphics card, and installed it. Everything works great in windows, but I had been using integrated graphics before and had disabled it.
Now, whenever I boot into (or rather try to) OpenSuSE, it tell me that there is a problem with something involving X or something.
What’s going on? Do I have to be in integrated graphics in order to get it to work or what? Help me out please!
I have more info now as to the error message I get whenever I try to boot into OpenSuSE.
Failed to start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view the X server output to diagnose the problem?
I assume that this is a severe bug in OpenSuSE 11.0?
at the flashing cursor - which could be login (if you have auto login disabled)
so you will need to login
but do so as root
make sure you are runlevel 3
Ideally, you would pause the green grub boot screen using the down arrow, then move back to suse boot and type the number : 3
then hit enter
in root login runlevel3
type: sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
reboot
You can get your old bootloader with windows back by getting to /boot/grub
in there will be a menu.lst.old
that will probably be the one you need
open it and copy the text for the windows boot and paste to your existing /menu.lst
If you don’t think you can edit it from the command line you can always use a knoppix cd/dvd to boot with
it should mount the /root of suse
use knoppix super user file manager to edit the file.
But have you tried:
Ideally, you would pause the green grub boot screen using the down arrow, then move back to suse boot and type the number : 3
then hit enter
in root login runlevel3
type: sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
reboot
This will get you back in to suse with a working X for sure
I got into boot/grub and I found the menu.lst.old. But I can’t open it normally. It says that I don’t have the proper program for it. Should i open it in Openoffice or something else?
I don’t use GNOME, so I don’t know what the equivalent program is.
in YAST open the Community repositories. You should see one for NVIDIA. Enable it and then choose the latest driver (I don’t do it this way, so i don’t know the name sorry). You will need to reboot after installing it. It should display an NVIDIA splash screen, if it installed correctly.
I honestly don’t know which driver to install. I tried doing it before I messed up GRUB and XP, but I don’t think it worked.
I went on Nvidia’s website, and it told me to download 2 things:
nvidia-gfx-kmp-default
x11-video0nvidia
I’m not sure if those are the right ones, because the nvidia splash screen didn’t come up after reboot.
But that’s not my biggest concern. Right now I need help getting XP back into GRUB so I can boot into it. I can deal with the drivers later with some help from my friend.
You need ‘root’ permissions to open /boot/grub/menu.lst, yes.
Good luck.
SteeleCratos wrote:
| Ok, I tried gedit, but it says that I don’t have the permissions
| necessary to open the file…
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| I have a big suspicion that I need to open it as root, but
| unfortunately, I have no idea how to do that. How do you do it?
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| -Peace-
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Now that you are in openSUSE ok, why not run YaST > System > Boot Loader. In there it has the option for YaST to read your partitions and propose a new grub configuration. This should, according to other posts on the topic, find XP and include it in the grub menu for you.
I don’t think he is in suse, earlier in the thread he described loosing X after adding a graphics card.He then messed up his grub. SO actually the problem is two fold.
And thinking about it. It might be best if he concentrates first on getting X back and THEN get windows back to grub.
We have already discussed the approach to getting X up in basic form with vesa. But again:
type 3 in the boot line to get runlevel 3 - login as root