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anker

9 Oct 2007 9 Oct '07

00:02

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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Dave Barton

9 Oct 9 Oct

04:38

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------- Original Message -------- From: anker Date: Tue 09 Oct 2007 11:02:32 EST

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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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHCwW67asJm/pW/p8RAhUBAJ4rkMT5WNLD+uWGslYzGngXRkxnGACguM3K UZKO63ySwegg/uGLVup2K0s= =nGxl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Aniruddha

09:52

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In cases like this where GUI was present during install it is also

Try these suggestions: possible to

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get GUI using installation xorg.conf. Login as root and simply copy:

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-old

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cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install /etc/X11/xorg.conf

If all else fails:

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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:

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- -------- Original Message -------- From: anker Date: Tue 09 Oct 2007 11:02:32 EST

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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

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Dave Barton

11:10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------- Original Message -------- From: Aniruddha Date: Tue 09 Oct 2007 20:52:05 EST

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Try these suggestions:

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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

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cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install /etc/X11/xorg.conf

If all else fails:

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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

Since you sent this directly to both me and the list, I guess you are offering a suggestion to fix the issue I was describing. In which case I thank you, but the issue was thrashed out on this and other lists a long time ago and having tried the above, plus dozens of other very good recommendations the "problem" was never able to be resolved. Ultimately it was not a major problem, since, with the illogical work around, the only "issue" was that the user saw the boot message text instead of a "pretty" graphic until X finally kicked in. All of this is now totally academic, because the box in question has long since gone to recycling or landfill. Dave

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On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:38 +1100, Dave Barton wrote: -------- Original Message -------- From: anker Date: Tue 09 Oct 2007 11:02:32 EST

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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

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Donald D Henson

16:44

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:

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Try these suggestions:

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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

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cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install /etc/X11/xorg.conf

If all else fails:

...
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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 Date: Tue 09 Oct 2007 11:02:32 EST

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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

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Aniruddha

22:09

Lol, that is impossible. X resides on tty 7 (ctrl+alt+F7) you can always access the command line from tty1 to tty6 (ctrl+alt+F1 to F6). On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:44 -0600, Donald D Henson wrote:

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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:

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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 Date: Tue 09 Oct 2007 11:02:32 EST

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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

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Kai Ponte

10 Oct 10 Oct

02:59

On Tuesday 09 October 2007 15:09, Aniruddha wrote:

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Lol, that is impossible. X resides on tty 7 (ctrl+alt+F7) you can always access the command line from tty1 to tty6 (ctrl+alt+F1 to F6).

Ooh, that's cool! -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Michael Skiba

19:55

Am Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2007 04:59:55 schrieb Kai Ponte:

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On Tuesday 09 October 2007 15:09, Aniruddha wrote:

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Lol, that is impossible. X resides on tty 7 (ctrl+alt+F7) you can always access the command line from tty1 to tty6 (ctrl+alt+F1 to F6).

Ooh, that's cool! Standard

Greetings Michael (sorry for this short reply..)

Donald D Henson

9 Oct 9 Oct

16:38

Dave Barton wrote:

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-------- Original Message -------- From: anker Date: Tue 09 Oct 2007 11:02:32 EST

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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

I had the same symptoms. As I recall, the solution was as described above. Don Henson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Jose Thadeu Cavalcante

13:08

On Monday 08 October 2007, anker wrote:

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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

Hi, The same or similar problem happens with me. I also have a mouse/keyboard wireless Logitech, as you connected to PS2, and after installation no GUI. sax2 show me a message "no pointer device" (or something like) and then abort when running it in text mode. Then I connect another mouse, a Logitech USB and run sax2, and config the video. Finnaly, remove the USB mouse and all work normally. What is happen I don't know. Cheers Thadeu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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