Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1702 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
> Basil Chupin skrev:
>   
> > Marc Chamberlin wrote:
> >     
> > > Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> > >       
> > > > On 06/09/09 16:10, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  
> > > >         
> > > > > What this does is that it makes it impossible for me to use Yast or Sax
> > > > > to reconfigure my display.
> > > > >     
> > > > >           
> > > > run sax.sh -a in a terminal.
> > > >
> > > >   
> > > >         
> > > Well that exposed yet another problem! When I bring up a terminal and
> > > try to type in it, all of the letters are being displayed as if they
> > > are being typed on top of each other. In other words there is no
> > > advancement of the curser taking place when typing in one character to
> > > the next!
> > > So I decided to just "blind" type in the commands to su to root,
> > > password and then sax.sh -a...  That printed out a message saying Sax
> > > was already configured and that I should run sax2 -r  So again I blind
> > > typed that in and it appears as if the display is halted, I get a
> > > brief glimpse of what looks like the boot up output and then the
> > > display simply goes blank and nothing further happens...
> > >
> > >   Marc.
> > >
> > >
> > >       
> > May I suggest that you re-install oS from scratch, and unless you are
> > running GNOME or have some dislike of KDE4.3 may I suggest that you
> > download the Live CD created by Stephan Binner which has 11.1 but with
> > the 4.3 Desktop. The URL is    http://home.kde.org/~binner/kde-four-live/  
> >
> > Now, you may also have the need to retain some of your existing files -
> > eg, your mail files - then get hold of SYSTEM RESCUE DISC and use
> > midnight commander (mc) to make backups of the files then re-install 11.1.
> >
> > BC
> >
> >     
>
>
> When you invoke 'sax', you do that in a terminal, you write. I suppose
> that's from within your corrupted GUI.
>
> May I suggest that you forget the terminal and go to a complete new
> shell, type CTRL+ALT+F1
>
> This should bring you to a new - non GUI - shell. Log in as root and fix
> your X setup with sax as per directions.

I suspect that you intended to reply to either Marc or Christian and not
me :-) .

BC


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