Recently I installed Suse 11.1 KDE 4.1 on my machine. When I boot suse it displays in 1024x768 res using VESA drivers. I recently downloaded some updates and upon restart i wasn’t able to get to desktop. I’ve tried various commands to configure my res:
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
Doesn’t work(resolution issue, and X-server can’t load(w/e that is…))
sax2 -a
Autoconfig works, but when I type startx to get to desktop, it fails
sax2 --fullscreen
Doesn’t work(resolution issue, and X-server can’t load)
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa --fullscreen
Same as above
After all this failed, I rebooted and started in failsafe mode. To my amazement my resolution is flawless and almost all my hardware is detected and is functioning porperly (except my sound I think). Everything seems to be in order, I have my desired resolution and almost everything is functioning.
Which brings me to my question. What is failsafe mode, and could/should I just boot from there all the time? It seems to be the best functioning of the two SUSE options I have from my GRUB boot menu. What should I do?
Failsafe provides the same as the default, it’s the same system. All it does is add kernel arguments - If failsafe works, it’s OK to use it. Some feature may not work, eg; suspend
In this file: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Which is the menu file that shows up when you boot your computer.
Look at it and see the difference - In the default you may have vga=***
if you remove that and put in the failsafe part: x11failsafe vga=***
You edit the file with (be careful - make a copy)
kdesu kwrite /boot/grub.menu.lst
that assumes you are using kde. Gnome is: gnomesu gedit
You can actually try it without editing the file, and do it at the boot screen, it gives the option to edit kernel arguments
Tagging on to someone’s 1 week old thread is not likely to get you the support you want. I recommend you start a new thread. Also advise what you tried, and what graphic hardware your PC has (ie ati ? nvidia ? intel ? and what graphic card model ? ). For example my sandbox PC has a nvidia FX5200 graphics. Ensure you specify what openSUSE version you have as well.