openSUSE failes to show xserver on startup
Everytime I install the openSUSE 10.3 distribution this happens. After it is done starting up and I boot the machine, my monitor kicks off as like there is nothing to display and my computer went to sleep. Though, if I hit CTRL + SHIFT + F1 everything is working fine and I can log in. Then about 30 seconds later, I can heard the login music or chime.
This also happens on the KDE 4 Live CD. My graphics card is a Ati Xpress 200. AMD 3500+ Athlon 64 ASUS MoBo Thanks. |
13.3.2 No Graphical Login
If the machine comes up, but does not boot into the graphical login manager, anticipate problems either with the choice of the default runlevel or the configuration of the X Window System. To check the runlevel configuration, log in as the root user and check whether the machine is configured to boot into runlevel 5 (graphical desktop). A quick way to check this is to examine the contents of /etc/inittab, as follows: nld-machine:~ # grep "id:" /etc/inittab id:5:initdefault: nld-machine:~ # The returned line indicates that the machine's default runlevel (initdefault) is set to 5 and that it should boot to the graphical desktop. If the runlevel is set to any other number, use the YaST Runlevel Editor module to set it to 5. IMPORTANT Do not edit the runlevel configuration manually. Otherwise SuSEconfig (run by YaST) will overwrite these changes on its next run. If you need to make manual changes here, disable future SuSEconfig changes by setting CHECK_INITTAB in /etc/sysconfig/suseconfig to no. If the runlevel is set to 5, you might have corruption problems with your desktop or X Windows software. Examine the log files at /var/log/Xorg.*.log for detailed messages from the X server as it attempted to start. If the desktop fails during start, it might log error messages to /var/log/messages. If these error messages hint at a configuration problem in the X server, try to fix these issues. If the graphical system still does not come up, consider reinstalling the graphical desktop. One quick test: the startx command should force the X Window System to start with the configured defaults if the user is currently logged in on the console. If that does not work, it should log errors to the console. For more information about the X Window system configuration, refer to Chapter 8, The X Window System (↑Reference). |
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