Hi all,
I wanted to install the ATI drivers following this tutorial:
Hardware - Installing ATI Drivers - openSUSE Forums
After I writed
init3
a console appeared.I didn;t know how to exit from there and I rebooted the laptop.
When I enter again in Suse the image is white, and nothing appear.
What can I do to resolve this???:’(
With Failsafe Suse it’s the same.
I have Gnome!
Hello there.
That was a CLI == command line interface.
There you get a login screen where you can login (at the login prompt login:) with your username and password.
You need to install in that mode the ati driver or at least it was needed since I think that how-to is outdated - the package from ATI website is called now: ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run.
The good/latest how-to are available here: ATI - openSUSE
and the repository links are available here: Additional YaST Package Repositories - openSUSE
I would suggest you login in CLI (add 3 to the booting options at GRUB screen to go to init 3) with root and then try to reconfigure your video card with command sax2 or using yast (yast-ncurses interface) / hardware / videocard.
<< If you miss to add the 3 or don’t know where to add it just let it boot normally to the white screen and press CTRL+ALT+F1 which will give you a CLI again. Login there with root and password and type again init 3 to stop the X server. >>
After that you can try and see if the GUI starts with init 5 or a reboot in normal mode.
If that is successful and you get a GUI you can try using the one click install link from the how-to ATI link above.
If the reconfigure of the videocard won’t work you can try an install of ati drivers from the CLI with either yast or zypper.
Good luck.
The HowTo you used is the “hard way” which compiles the driver from a script downloaded from ATI. There is an “easy way” described here ATI - openSUSE. If you have to add the ATI repository yourself, it is here ATI YaST Package Repositories
Do you think, are you sure that you successfully completed the driver installation from the downloaded script? If you did, on the boot menu screen, type the number “3” (without quotes) in the box below, and boot. You will be taken to a command line prompt, login as root. Then do this:
aticonfig -initial -f
sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
And reboot. If that fails, then try this
sax2 -r -m 0=radeon
if that fails, this
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
Results?
I don’t understand, I have entered in CLI and folowed the tips from “ghostintheruins” and “mingus725” but nothing workes.
The sax2 command sais:
-bash:sax2:command not found
Also the
init 3
init 5
have the same output:command not found.
I have entered in root with my user and my password!!
Whan can I do next???
Ok.
I have resolved with this:Help! I’m an idiot. Lost GUI and going into Linux Prompt. - openSUSE Forums
Hard…hard…hard 
You weren’t root. So, did you use the ncurses version of YaST to run the Graphics Card configurator (which is sax2 under the hood)? Probably getting the proprietary ATI or nvidia graphics driver working is the biggest set up challenge for someone new to this OS (mainly because it cannot be included in the installation, must be added afterward), and you apparently accomplished that.
So . . . congratulations! 