X fails after hardware change

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Heip!

I had to move my SSD (with working suse leap 15.2) from AMD platform to INTEL platform. Boots up fine till GUI. Command “startx” gives me smth like there is no $DISPLAY.
Is there any easy way to fix this?

Fresh install works fine, so hardware aint the problem.

Thank you very much!
Rauno

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But yes, of course it’s an issue …

  • The AMD and Intel Architectures are different enough to demand different packages to be installed to support the different microcode running on the different hardware – especially the graphics hardware but also, especially, the CPUs themselves …
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As you have a working iso image, the minimal thinking answer is to use it to run an “upgrade” of your existing installation from Leap-15.2 to Leap-15.2. This will hopefully run the hardware detection phase and install the required hardware dependent packages.

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Packages are compiled to match AMD64 standard for x86_64. SSE2, and no more.

To OP: IMHO problem is with graphics - reinstall drivers with subsequent creating new boot image.
You may load OS with text mode (kernel parameter “3”).