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[Peter Bloomfield <peter.bloomfield@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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