Re: [Bulk] Re: [opensuse] booting to command line instead of desktop

dwain wrote:

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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go to the console, switch to runlevel 3 and reinstall the driver, will it correct my error and boot into the kde desktop?

yes/maybe/probably, but more information is necessary to be sure.

How did you install which nvidia driver?

i did the one-click install on the opensuse site from the new driver link since i didn't find my geforce fx 5200 pci on the legacy card list.

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Usually when trying to solve a problem, you would announce the openSUSE version and architecture, and detail the steps that caused your problem and any particular hardware that might be interesting, such as the video card.

i am using opensuse 11.0, with updates, so i think the kernel is 0.18. i was in runlevel 5 when i did the update. the graphics were fine after the update. i then ran yast2 and and ran sax2 to check things out. Once you have installed an nvidia driver, don't alter video settings with sax2, use, in kde anyway, menu > system > configuration > nvidia settings. IIRC you can init to runlevel 3 and run nvidia-xconfig and that may start x working again, otherwise the runlevel 3 sax2 -r option given to you earlier should get you back to square one, then repeat your one click install and don't use sax afterwards. Regards Dave P

before the update the 3d accelerator was disabled and after the update it was checked. i saved the settings (don't know why), exited yast2 and rebooted the machine. everything was going along fine until on loading the os the screen went black and then the opensuse logo along with the loading indicator line showed through the black screen and then i ended up at the command prompt.

i hope this helps. i knew i should have gone into the the terminal and run init 3 before the update. why i didn't do it i don't know. i guess i thought it would be ok to do it from where i was. at least after the update it didn't look like i did any harm.

cheers, dwain

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