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Old 08-09-2005, 03:40 PM   #1
tennis
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How to start Suse 9.3 ???


(Sorry, I wrote same message of 24Tennis, becouse I didn't show my email for answers, (in 24Tennis): here it is.)

Hi everyone, installed 9.3 Suse Professinal, But....
But at the end, when I start to access Suse 9.3, it ask me :
login : ok accepted
Password : ok accepted
but at the end Suse writes: mylogin@linux:>
where, after mylogin@linux , between : and > there is a little, little wave, a little bit upper, that i cannot type with this keyboard ( but this is not the problem).

The problem is that, after Suse writes : mylogin@linux:littlewave >
I don't know what to type to access the program !!!!!!!

I tried to write my login , password, User Name, but nothing!
I do not have access to the program ! ( Maybe becouse when I installed it I wasn't connected to Internet?? I think it was not a sure thing to do before cheking Suse's settings.)
Big Thanks to anyone can help !!!!!
 
Old 08-09-2005, 03:49 PM   #2
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If you mean start into the GUI, try

startx


That should get start the GUI (your default one)
 
Old 08-09-2005, 04:04 PM   #3
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usually suse logs in no problem. I believe your boot loader is damaged.
Put DVD inside
Start Box from DVD
Select Installation and then select REPAIR installed system.
Select Automatic Repair
 
Old 08-09-2005, 05:07 PM   #4
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Typically this means that X has failed to start correctly, and SuSE has dumped you down to a console (run level 3). Unfortunately, there is no simple way to just fix this - I suspect that your attempts at "startx" will produce a similar result. Instead, you have to examine /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and look for things that have gone wrong. Usually it is something related to your video driver; I have had this happen when X couldn't find a video mode that would work, almost always for flat panel monitors, which are much more restrictive. Good luck!
 
Old 08-09-2005, 07:15 PM   #5
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I recently had a same problem.

The Nvidia driver I had loaded didn't support the video card (anymore).

In the docs of the last driver Nvidia advised to load an older driver if you had one of the specified adapters.

The trouble is, that Suse tries to load updates in the first start up. It then takes the newest Nvidia driver and off you go.

If this is the case there is only one way to go. Reinstall. Do not load any updates of video cards or kernel (Suse advises not to do a kernel update in the install).
After the start up and everything working restart and do the updates, but take care not to install the Nvidia driver. You have to get the right one from the Nvidia site.

CloudBuilder
 
  


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