First and second install of Suse 10 on IBM Netvista with integrated Intel video adapter will not attain runlevel 5 due to not being able to access $DISPLAY. Yast shows that the adapter and monitor hardware have been correctly identified. What utility is there to reconfig or jog the machine to see the definitions and load appropriately?

gtennant

Try to execute sax2 from a console. To do so: Start in Runlevel 3, login as root and execute "sax2 -l". Configure your Graphics and Monitor from there. Save the settings and execute init 5 to start the xserver. This should help.

When you log in as root, type "init 3" and that will put you at run level 3. Then do your Sax2 command.

I've done this: boot and login as root at runlevel 3, run both yast and yast2, and sax2 as well. Not knowing the settings required to enable the monitor and graphics card in question, I tried several alternatives, all to no avail. Suspecting that the graphics card (Intel integrated into motherboard) was crappy, I put an aged S3 64 card into a pci slot, made the appropriate BIOS changes, and arrive at the same spot. The OS correctly identifies the graphicsa card and monitor, but fails to load correct drivers or parameters. Ideas?

Thx,

gtennant

I'm a newbie, to SUSE a very new newbie, so please be gentle.

Recent install of SUSE 10 on Netvista 8307 DE3 2.4 MHZ w/ 1 GB RAM, integrated Intel Video (i8345) and NIC.

hda - 40 GB
hdb - 160 GB
hdc - CDROM
hdd - 160 GB

I did the default install (having had difficulties on previous installs on this
machine, I fdisk -mbr 5 times, then fdisk and blew away all partitions so install
faced a clean workspace). Only exception is that I pointed the / and swap partitions at hda, only. Install goes according to plan, and correctly identified monitor and graphics card. On ultimate reboot, though it reports loading runlevel 5, no gui. Additionally OS reports "Skipped Services in runlevel 5 nfs, acpid, smbfs, splash.

Running startkde and startx yield similar poor results. Running sax2 also fails.

Following is feedback from OS on trying to run startkde:

cp: cannot start 'opt/kde3/share/config/SUSE/default//artsmessagerrc': No such file or directory
cp: cannot start 'opt/kde3/share/config/SUSE/default//kcmartsrc': No such file or directory
cp: cannot start 'opt/kde3/share/config/SUSE/default//kdewizardrc': No such file or directory
cp: cannot start 'opt/kde3/share/config/SUSE/default//kpersonalizerrc': No such file or directory
xset: unable to open display ""s
xsetroot: unable to open display ''
startkde: Starting up...
kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
warning: connect () failed: No such file or directory
ksmserver: cannot connect to Xserver
startkde: Shutting down...
warning: connect () failed: No such file or directory
ERROR: Can't contact kdeinit!
/opt/kde3/bin/startkde: Line 274: artsshell: command not found
startkde: Running shutdown scripts
startkde: Done.

Subsequent attempts to run startkde yield:

xset: unable to open display ""
xsetroot: unable to open display ''
startkde: Starting up...
kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
ksmserver: cannot connect to X server
ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!
startkde: Shutting down...
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
/opt/kde3/bin/startkde: line 274: artsshell: command not found
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.




I am at a loss. Any ideas?

Thanks,

gtennant