Here is the problem, i downloaded suse 9.2, burned the dvd and installed, all beautiful and then when i try to go into the thing, it just goes into text mode, and like it never tries for the gui.............if anyone has some advice, im still a so, in dumb person terms.

the last part of the suse install is 'configuration', where you get a chance to set up your card/monitor/resolution and then test it out. Did you see the test screen ok? If all else, start with a lower bunch of settings, and work your way up. If I'm setting up an older machine, I will start out at 800x600 with 256 colors, then sneak it up higher in yast until I reach the limits of the card/monitor.

Hope this helps!

Did you set up the video during the installation? If so you just need to change the default start level. Before doing this, startup KDE or Gnome by entering startx. You can run YaST from the menu and make the changes there.

If you need to select the driver/monitor, you can run sax2 from the console to set things up. If it doesn't detect your graphics card, you can use the 'vesa' driver, which is pretty much universal.
Keep in mind that the vesa driver is non-accelerated, but it will get your started, so you can get into x-windows and google for an answer.

Starting at 800x600 mode sounds like overkill. Unless you have a very ancient card, 1024x786 at 16 bits should cause no problems. If your monitor isn't recognized, I wouldn't use a refresh rate above 60hz until finding out what the specs are.

As a last resort, you could use the 'gtf' program as root to calculate ModeLines for the XF86config file.

/usr/X11R6/bin/gtf 1024 768 60 -x
will generate a modeline you could use. This is the command I used, for my lcd display, since it wasn't detected properly by sax.