Hello,

I am new to linux. I have a Toshiba Satellite P35-S605 running dual-boot winXP and Suse.
I had Mandrake installed previously and it worked great. I now want to put suse on my computer. The installation goes great but when I try to load suse from Grub I get a black screen. I can load into safemode just fine. I can run sax2 just fine but kde wont run. When I try tunning KDE by just typing "KDE" and I get:
cp: cannot stat '/opt/kde3/share/config/SuSE/default//artsmessagerc': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/opt.....//kcmartsrc': No suck file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/opt.....//kdewizardrc': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/opt.....//kpersonalizerrc': No such file or directory
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!
starting artsd!
kcminit: cannot connect to X server
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.

I thought maybe video drivers even though sax2 runs fine so I put them on cd from WinXP and when I try to issue command "mount /dev/cdrom" I get no reply back so I guess it mounted find but when I go into the mnt directory there is nothing listed so I guess its not mounting?
I just read a post at linuxquestions.org of somone having a similar issue. The solution way to type startx. Well that worked but I want to be able to log into kde when I choose Suse 10 from the grub menu. How do I do this?
It still boots to a blank screen unless I boot into failsafe and run startx from there.

Any Ideas for any of this?

Thank you.

OK, so you found the solution to your first problem (using 'startx' instead of 'kde'). Now you would like to run this automatically after boot?

Edit /etc/initab:

Runlevel 3 is without graphical environment, 5 is with.

EDIT:
After reading your post the second time, I realised that you probably have runlevel 5 configured already. Do you really end at a black screen? Maybe if you wait the KDE login screen comes up?

Check /bood/grub/menu.lst for a suitable vga= setting. Maybe the resolution is set wrong for the framebuffer device.