what to do after login?

English Install/Boot/Login
#1

After installation was complete, a DOS page came up, that says login at the bottom. I entered my login name.
It asked for my password. I entered my password but the keyboard seemed unresponsive. I pressed enter. It said something like have fun! It was waiting for another command, but I tried run, home, login and nothing worked.

#2

try startx

#3

Why do you not install system with automatic X-system loading? Just simply check your X settings - Try to run “Xorg” from console.If it doesn’t work you must install videocard drivers.

#4

Probably the keyboard was not unresponsive, but what you typed was not shown on the screen. This is normal for passwords. Just type it in and hit ENTER.

Then you see a prompt. You are on the Linux command line. Whatever you type here is the name of a program to be run. Most of the programs need some arguments too. Arguments are entered on the same line separated by spaces. You can do a lot of useful things from the command line.

Often used commands are: ls cd cp rm mkdir rmdir cat joe vi man

For (almost) every command there is a manual page. To see the manual type ‘man’ and the name of the command. Like this:

man ls

and then use ‘q’ to quit. Get youself a cup of coffee, relax and read an introduction to the command line: Some CLI Basics - openSUSE

#5

On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:36:01 +0000, blinkthebear3 wrote:

> After installation was complete, a DOS page came up, that says login at
> the bottom. I entered my login name. It asked for my password. I
> entered my password but the keyboard seemed unresponsive. I pressed
> enter. It said something like have fun! It was waiting for another
> command, but I tried run, home, login and nothing worked.

What you saw was actually not DOS, but a Linux terminal. It sounds like
the video card in your system was not detected properly.

Try doing an “exit”, and then login as “root” (no quotes) using the
password you used to login with your user ID (it should be the same from
the openSUSE installation unless you gave it another password).

When you receive the console prompt, type:

sax2 -r

This should restart the autodetection of the video. If you don’t get a
screen that asks to validate the video configuration, post back here with
information about what kind of video card you have and we can go from
there.

Thanks,

Jim

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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator