After reinstalling kde (accident) suse fails to boot

ultramancool · 09-15-2004, 05:35 PM

I was fooling around with suse package manager, downloading pretty much everysecond thing i saw (yes i know this is a bad habit but can u blaim me?).
KDE base and libs appeared in red so i switched them to what i thought was update but now know is reinstall. And I managed to screw up x. it reports it has 0 displays when trying to start.
Is there something i can do to fix this (i'm sure there is but is it hard?)
SUSE linux 9.1 Personal CD downloadable with a wole ton a stuff d/l ed
Please help windows xp really does suck!

mcleodnine · 09-15-2004, 05:39 PM

You may need to reconfigure X with SuSE's 'sax2' configuration tool.

ultramancool · 09-15-2004, 05:40 PM

tried sax2 told me something about init 3 tried it
told me didn't know the command!
i can only get a prompt. dunno if that helps.
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mcleodnine · 09-15-2004, 06:08 PM

yeah - you'll need to be root to properly configure your X environment 'su' is the command to switch users, and all by itself will default to the root user (for which you'll need the root password).

Code:

user@mybox:/$ su -
root@mybox:~# init 3
root@mybox:~# sax2

ultramancool · 09-15-2004, 06:32 PM

i'll try it thanks!

ultramancool · 09-15-2004, 06:39 PM

it works thanks a million
if it weren't for this site i would be hopeless!
and end up reinstalling!