i see geeko load and then he turns to mush…this was after loading the wrong grafix driver and uninstalling and rebooting…
reinstall the entire OS to start over…:X …??
what do i do to roll back to the default openSUSE driver that was working?
all i could see is the boot screen
Which graphics driver did you install and how?
How did you uninstall it?
And what graphic card do you have?
You could try pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a text login, does that work?
Im here looking at troubleshooting
Disable FGLRX
If, after having installed FGLRX, you find that X is unable to start. This procedure describes the process of re-enabling the open source radeon driver.
edit] Blacklist
One of the first things fglrx does to ensure that radeon doesn’t interfere with it is it blacklists the radeon module so that the kernel doesn’t load it while booting.
# rm /etc/modprobe.d/fglrx.conf
What I don’t get is where to even type that – at grub boot screen???
I dont know…is that even a fix? its not specific to saying to even type that…to fix…or…whats that code for?
So you installed the fglrx driver. But please answer the other questions as well.
As I said before, when your machine has booted try pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 then a login prompt in text mode should appear.
Login as root and then type in that command you mentioned.
And also remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
After a reboot the old driver may work again.
And telling which version of openSUSE you use wouldn’t also be bad.
I installed/uninstalled it inside of yast
the card is a pci radeon for one click over at this page here 32bit
i cant see the exact name of the card now…but i belive its the
RV670 Radeon HD 3850/3870, M88
I installed the one click - it worked …but was reactive slow…and lagging allot…worse then it was before i loaded that driver…
so i went into yast and deleted it…thinking it would roll itself back on its own…
rebooted
and the screen is all jacked up…right after the grub loader
OpenSUSE 12.3 …with all the updates - freshly installed
And to add:
You should be able to get to the normal login screen if you select “Advanced Options” at the boot menu (where you can choose between openSUSE and Windows if installed) and select the second option “openSUSE 12.3, …(recovery mode)”
This card isn’t supported anymore by the fglrx driver.
And the legacy driver which you installed only works up to openSUSE 12.2.
I installed the one click - it worked …but was reactive slow…and lagging allot…worse then it was before i loaded that driver…
so i went into yast and deleted it…thinking it would roll itself back on its own…
It should have.
But I would suggest to try recovery mode as mentioned above first.
Then remove those files and try to boot again.
Inside of advanced recovery mode it goes as far as
Reached target graphical interface
and shows a blinking _ cursor …
Press the ESC key on your keyboard. Can you login in text mode then?
Or try Ctrl+Alt+F1.
But AFAICS that 1-click install shouldn’t have installed anything, since that repo is empty for 12.3.
Are you sure you didn’t install something else?
the CTRL =ALT=F1 got me to the login and im logged in…
what should i type next? sorry…or can you tell me where i can find out what to type?
i used the 12.2 cause the other one 12.3 didn’t install …it got stuck tying to find a repo i think - figured the 12.2 wasn’t toooo far off
This has already been written, you asked where to type those commands from https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:ATI_troubleshooting, you should type them here!
So when you’re logged in, run the following commands:
rm /etc/modeprobe.d/*fglrx.conf
rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
(exactly this way)
Hopefully a normal boot will work then again…
Tried …no such files everytime…
# rm /etc/modprobe.d/50-fglrx.conf
even tried with ‘modeprobe.d’ (adding the ‘e’) -
I had been doing this on my sons computer…at this point he’s lost his patience with me and took on to reloading it fresh …hes at this point mid way into reloading it complete…I keep telling him that the drivers for that card of his wont be any improvement - and hes now considering loading back to XP
I appreciate all the great reply’s and the help.
I have my own computer with OpenSUES 12.3 duel booting with XP working just great…so far, I been testing it out to feel out how much i can learn from the experience…
My wife has even started to consider it herself (shes on an Mac)…
much to learn.
there is no safemode to loading into OpenSUSE - graphically ?
Sorry, that was a typo. It should have been “modprobe.d” of course…:shame:
Well, if those files were not there then there was another problem. A look into /var/log/Xorg.0.log should have given a clue.
But hard to say now what it was.
I had been doing this on my sons computer…at this point he’s lost his patience with me and took on to reloading it fresh …hes at this point mid way into reloading it complete…I keep telling him that the drivers for that card of his wont be any improvement - and hes now considering loading back to XP
openSUSE does include the radeon driver, which, depending on the specific card, works quite well, or can be tweaked to work well.
there is no safemode to loading into OpenSUSE - graphically ?
Yes, there is.
“Advanced Options”->“openSUSE 12.3, … (recovery mode)” as I told you before.
That it didn’t work for you might be because of this bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809361, which has been fixed by an online update recently (to “xf86-video-modesetting”, it was released on July 5th):
- Mit Jun 26 2013 sndirsch@suse.com
- 0.8.0 driver update fixes x11 failsafe mode, i.e. fallback to
fbdev/vesa X driver, if KMS has been disabled (bnc#809361)
openSUSE does include the radeon driver, which, depending on the specific card, works quite well, or can be tweaked to work well.
I managed to have him let me try again tomorrow with his fresh install -
Is there a graphic driver that could work with his card?
RV620 ** Radeon HD 3450**/3470, M82 ]
with a fresh updated OpenSUSE 12.3
Its on the supported list here
just oddly it wasn’t loading with the OpenSUSE 12.3 repo
****http://geeko.ioda.net/mirror/amd-fglrx-legacy/openSUSE_12.3/
Yes, the open source radeon driver works with the radeon HD 3450 with openSUSE-12.3. I had that hardware in my Dell Studio 1537 laptop and I had openSUSE-12.3 running successfully on it.
But for the radeon driver to work, you need to disable plymouth. One way to do that is to use the boot code:
plymouth.enable=0
I know that from experience using that card.
Swwweeeeet! thats Great news!
So the driver that is ((default on fresh OpenSUSE install)) working now to render the screen, is the one that your referring to ?
Boot? coding that is just putting that code in the terminal yes? or is it something more like adding that line to a onload file someplace?
its works now but when he watches video like on youtube it chops and laggs
thanks for the reply 
It depends. What driver is running now ? Vesa ? Modesetting ? FBDEV ? Radeon ? Perhaps copy the content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log file to SUSE Paste and press ‘create’ and post here the web site/url it provides. That way we can check that log file to see what driver is loaded.
One can insert this into a grub2 boot manager menu by going to 'YaST > System > Boot Loader > Boot Loader options, and then add it as an optional kernel command line parameter. Be careful to be precise wrt the syntax. After added to that menu, it will take effect during the next reboot.