On Tuesday 06 January 2004 08:00, Dan Eskildsen wrote:
Hi there. I still haven't worked out the problem, I decided to format the machine and reinstall SuSE 9.0 but the result is the same.
Sorry about my ignorance but is Sax2 and how to I run it?
It's SuSE's graphical setup for the x server, i.e. it will attempt to let you set up your graphical environment in an easy, user friendly way. I haven't followed this thread, so forgive me if I'm wrong, but I assume you're having difficulty getting the graphical environment running. I have installed several time from ftp recently because I kept reading people were having problems, and I must say I've yet to encounter a problem. I don't think the fact that your graphics setup has proved problematic is related to an ftp install.
I have tried typing SAX and SAX2 at the command line while logged in as root without any luck
Get a root prompt and do 'init 3'. Then type sax2, not SAX2, this should start a graphical installer, in which you specify your hardware if it's not detected, choose colour depth and resolution and various other things, then test the environment, adjust it, and save the settings. Once that's done, do 'init 5' and you should get X - if this doesn't work, come back to the list. HTH Fergus
Albert wrote:
On Monday 05 January 2004 13:46, Dan Eskildsen wrote:
OPS - it is a FTP install - free - so their is no SUSE support with it ;-)
<snip> Hi, Dan. I also just installed SuSE 9.0 from FTP and it wouldn't run KDE either. However, I poked around with SAX2 and Yast, focusing on my monitor resolution/frequency and rebooted a couple of times. Eventually, KDE started. Wish I could remember what I did :)
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