SuSE...how to boot to GUI?

[ddog84]

The title pretty much says it all. How do I get SuSE to automatically go to GUI rather than text only?? just installed it, and cant find a how-to

[daark.child]

You have to edit /etc/inittab as root and change

id:3:initdefault:

to

id:5:initdefault:

[ddog84]

it already defaults to runlevel5

"The default runlevel is defined here
id:5:initdefault:"

by the way i don't know how to return to the command line from here

[daark.child]

What editor did you use?

If you already have that, then it could be that there is a problem with your graphics card. Whilst logged into the command line, switch to root and enter "init 3" and then "sax2" (no quotes for both commands). If your card is configured properly you can then enter "init 5" to get back into GUI mode.

[ddog84]

i probably effed up on the /etc/inittab since i literally typed in "edit /etc/inittab" and I think it took me to a help text file but i dont know.

sax2 will not run. "xc: sorry could not start configuration server"

it tells me for details to go to the sax.log file. typing that in gets me "permission denied" while logged in as root.

[daark.child]

If you ran "edit /etc/inittab", then the Editor that was used is probably VI or VIM. To quit, you have to do "ESC" and then ":q".

To view the sax.log file, you need to be as root

less /var/log/sax.log

To quit after viewing the log file enter "q".