On Friday 17 September 2010, Robert Schweikert wrote:
Looks to me as the X settings have been screwed up and has to be fixed.
OK, any pointers about what files I need to fiddle with would be much appreciated.
Robert
Well, I'm very new at 11.3 myself and lots of things have changed since 11.2, there seem to be a new graphic "system" that "guesses" everything by itself and, as usual with these _stupid_ wizardry, when it works its so easy but when it fails it's C***. Sax has been removed it seems :( Nevertheless, this is what I would do if I was in your case: a) It may depend on what graphic card you use. I have an Nvidia. b) basically the place to look at is /etc/X11. In old time there should have been an xorg.conf file there that contains the information necessary to run X. The new system seems to put whatever it guesses somewhere else (don't know where), but the system will honnor and use an xorg.conf file (at least the Nvidia configuration creates one and it works). c) Once you are root at the command line (I use init 3 to get there, but you should not need that as you don't have X running), xou can try "X -configure". It should create an xorg.new (or xorg.conf.new) file and tell you where it put it. Copy the file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and try startx If this does not work, please give more informations about your hardware and someone may be able to help. Other solutions I can think of are: - copy xorg.conf back from some backup of your 11.1 install - you could even try some live CD (Mepis for example) that automagically sets up X and get the xorg.conf from there. It may or may not work but all distro should be running roughly the same version of X at the moment. Once you get X running it should be possible to tweak the settings if you screen is not good. Hope that can help Thierry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org