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erik100 · April 30, 2010, 11:06am

Hello,

After playing too much with ATI graphic card driver, I got stuck without being able to run GUI after OS start.
Also there are 5 boot options at start up (none of them gives GUI), prior to above mentioned problem there were only 2 boot options ( opensuse 11.2 and failsafe–opensuse 11.2), now there are 3 more (debug, desktop, desktop–safe). Is there a chance to bring GUI back or not?

hcvv · April 30, 2010, 12:07pm

Most probably you have also installed kernels. Is that correct?

erik100 · April 30, 2010, 12:16pm

@hcw

Yes, I believe that is correct … I was able to fix it by removing ATI driver with rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep fglrx) command and reinstall it with “1-click install”, after one click was done I did sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx and rebooted OS.
About 3 extra boot options, I decided just to remove them manually. Was this a wise decision? Do I need to worry about kernel/security/performance since I have installed kernels with ATI update?

DenverD · April 30, 2010, 12:18pm

erik100 wrote:

> After playing too much with ATI graphic card driver, … Is there a
> chance to bring GUI back or not?

sure–lots of options, here are five right off the top:

-un-play with it until it works again…

-restore from the latest backup you took before you broke it…

-try booting from a known good 11.2 DVD install disk and select
“Repair Installed System”…

-off machine backup your /home and data and do a fresh install–and,
then accept the default/GNU graphic driver…

-or, after the backup and before the fresh install buy and insert a
nVidia card which is known to meet your graphics needs and has
nVidia driver support…

hcvv · April 30, 2010, 1:24pm

Well, when I would have installed an extra kernel (using YaST//zypper) and, after some testing, would have decided which one I wanted, I would have deinstalled the other one (again using YaST/zypper). Then my boot options would most probably all the time have mirrored the kernels I had. When you do all sorts of things by hand (installing and deinstalling RPMs, editing menu.lst, etc.) you can not expect that YaST or any other management tool keeps up to date with what you did. And as you do not even document with what you are doing (playing) then I am afraid we do not know either and a choice of DenverD’s options do come to my mind.

It is also very likely that your present ATI module does not fit to at least one of the kernels you have.

erik100 · April 30, 2010, 4:49pm

@DenverD, @hcw

Thank you for all the help, I believe that driver is working as it should now. I have 3D support, … glxinfo, glxgears are both showing correct output.

DenverD · April 30, 2010, 5:08pm

good for you!! congrats…

but, how did you fix it? (restore, install or un-play?)

erik100 · May 1, 2010, 10:22am

@DenverD

“1-click install”, plus “sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx”.

DenverD · May 1, 2010, 12:16pm

erik100 wrote:
> “1-click install”, plus “sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx”.

SOLVED!!