suse 10.3 not booting into gui

Hi
I installed the open suse 10.3 from live dvd but i am new to linux and i do not have any idea.
After the install the system is booting into text mode and asks fro user name and passowrd.
After that I am total blank. I feel that it does not recognise my ati 3870 graphic card.
Need help…

Hi deepakkol,

To get your GUI try logging in as root at the console login and run ‘sax2 -r’ and reboot after saving the configuration to get basic graphics up and running.

After that you might want to try installing the ATI driver (if you have not done so already). See here for some pointers on ATI install on openSUSE : ATI - openSUSE

Let us know how you go!

Cheers,
Wj

Hi Wj,
Thanks for the reply.
I did try out what you mentioned.
This is what happened
It recognised my laser mouse and then it said “failed to start server”. A log has been created in SaX.log.
Also I do not know how to save the configuration as I am like very very new to this.

Give it one more try like this:

  1. (Re)Boot your system and at the first boot screen enter ’ init 3 ’ as boot option (this makes sure the system boots to console level, also called runlevel 3).
  2. At the login prompt, login as root
  3. Run Sax using the generic vesa driver ’ sax2 -r -m 0=vesa ’
    (should at least give you a normal GUI)
  4. Reboot the system normally to see if you now have a GUI

If this fails again post the contents of /var/log/SaX.log

Cheers,
Wj

I was going to suggest checking out sax2 there too, so that is a good suggestion

More sax2 options of what you can try here

SDB:Black screen after boot - openSUSE

Hi Guys
I tried the same as mentioned by you.
What it does is say the same thing and error log created.
On trying to access the log it says permission denied although I am logged in as root.

Help

Do you think that if I install open suse 11.0 this issue will get resolved?

I ran the live cd for open suse 10.3 aqnd it boots in gui with low graphics, I tried installing from there but it could not install.

I have downloaded the ati driver file from ati website.
It has the extension - .run
When I try to open it, I can see the code. I assumed it would be an executable file.
So
HELP…

You have to run it as an executable file. You need to do either of the following:
1:
>cd (to where the .run file is)
>chmod +x ati*.run (this will make the file executable)
>./ati[TAB] (the tab will autocomplete the filename)

2:
>cd (to where the .run file is)
>sh ati[TAB]

Either one of those should work.