Unless you're an expert in X, don't try these suggestions. I was trying various solutions as suggested on this list and I managed to screw up X so bad that I couldn't even use the command line. I had to manually power down and do a fresh install, after which I still had the problem. Just a word of caution from someone who's "been there".
Don Henson Aniruddha wrote: > Try these suggestions: > >> In cases like this where GUI was present during install it is also > possible to >> get GUI using installation xorg.conf. Login as root and simply copy: >> > cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-old > >> cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > > If all else fails: > > >>> Try setting the video driver in xorg.conf to vesa. You can edit >>> xorg.conf with this command (if you have nano installed otherwise > you >>> need to use vi): >>> >>> nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > > > > > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:38 +1100, Dave Barton wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > From: anker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue 09 Oct 2007 11:02:32 EST > >>>> Hi All, after my second download and still the same result ie no GUI >>>> is starting, so I'll need help with this problem. Net download from >>>> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss working fine >>>> both times. Yast2 working in txt mode also appears to be fine. At end >>>> of first boot startup the display flashes 3 times with about 5 sec >>>> interval in an attempt to start the x-server ending with a msg gui >>>> failed to start followed by more similar msg about the x-output log >>>> and indicate the mouse is not configured correctly and last that gdm >>>> need to restart after correction is done. Mause+keyboard is a >>>> wireless Logitech connected to standard ps2 input. Sax2 attempt to >>>> start its own gui which also fails. Swop of ..config with the >>>> ..config.install produce a display with a moving pointer but other >>>> wise not useable, as The section for the mouse is quite different. >>>> The display and the Nvidia seems to be correctly detected. I'll try >>>> sax2 from runlevel 3 otherwise I need some input on where to look. >>>> anker > I don't know if this is going to help, but in the past I had a box to > set up that gave me the same problem. > I found the work-around was to enter "vga" (without quotes and no = > equals sign) in the grub boot options. At runlevel 5 I get a graphical > log-in screen and from there on X works perfectly. It makes no sense to > me and I have no explanation as to why this works, but it can't do any > harm to just give it a try. > > HTH > > Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
