On Monday 21 July 2008 09:27, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
I had an interesting occurance during the install of OpenSuSE 11 on a machine which previously had 10.3 installed.
During the HW configuration no monitor (a ViewSonic E790F) was found, both the graphic (ATI Radeon 8500 series) and sound cards were found and configured no problem. The result of this was that on completing setup I had no window system, just a straight login.
I rebooted the system in failsafe mode which gave me a window system. I looked at the options on the failsafe boot and noticed an option X11failsafe, which I then added to the normal boot option, rebooted the system, which again resulted in a windows system, and the system seems to be working as normal.
I followed up both suggestions and having dug a little deeper I arrived with this. It appears that sax2 was failing to execute correctly, ie it failed during execution, somewhere around line 693 of the program init.pl I have two graphics chips, on the motherboard and ATI radeon 8500 series, so issuing the command 'sax2 -c 1' forcing it to point at the ATI card allowed me to configure the monitor and now I can boot without the X11failsafe. I am still 'non the wiser' as to why sax2 failed. If someone can let me know how to pipe the output of the command 'sax2 -a' to a log file I will post it here. I can log most of the ouput, but not the lines during the failure, where it prints which lines of which object the program failed at. Thanks for the suggestions, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org