Alex Angerhofer wrote:
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Bob Barnes wrote:
I turned off my computer, shouldn't have done that I guess. When I turned it on Suse 9.0 with all upgrades went through the text part of the boot, when It got to the graphics part I got part of a screen full of vertical closely spaced colored lines. When the boot finished, (at least the HD light quit flickering) I had a screen full of these multicolored lines and that
hmmm.... what have you been doing before you switched it off? Was this happening just after you upgraded to 9.0? It looks to me that your X setup is hosed. Any chance that your mouse and keyboard are still working after you boot?
was it. Stock KDE and stock kernel. Tried the "repair" off cd1, it asked for repair login, apparently that's not the same as "regular" login as it wouldn't accept my input. Any ideas how to get back into Suse, I kinda like it and have put quite a bit of work into customizing for my taste. Don't really want to have to reinstall if I don't have to.
You could follow Hartmut's advice and simply log on as root using the rescue boot off of CD1. Or, you could use ctrl-alt-F2 to get to a console from your weird looking monitor output. Then you could log on as root. I think what you need to do in either case is to run sax2 from a console and repair your monitor/graphics card settings. I would also recommend you set the default runlevel to 3 using yast.
HTH, Alex.
Thanx for your time and the reply. Thanx to all who replied. I just rebooted to try a (ctl-alt-bksp) during the colorful line screen. I have three OSs on here Suse Pro, Fedora and XP Pro. I use Acronis boot manager. Some time ago I decided I didn't like the 800x600 res. of the boot manager so I changed it to my normal 1024x768, looked better. This last boot I changed it back on the way to bringing Suse back up and try and fix it. Lo and behold Suse came up just like I never had a problem. I don't know if that fixed it or not but that's what happened since my last post. Should I send it in to "Ripley's Believe it or Not" or what!? Thanx everyone, this group is great and it's individuals like you that made it and keep it that way. I'll learn this stuff yet.... :o)