stuck in console mode, need gui

[striker0204]

hey,

im on my friends laptop and he will be leaving my house fairly soon.

and the problem im having is that my desktop which has suse 10.2 is messing up

when i go to boot, it runs into a text mode OS. not graphical.

ive gotten as far as having it start up in graphical mode, but right before it gets the the point of having me enter in my user and password via graphical prompts, it directs me to a text screen to login.

i can enter in my root user/password just fine but again, its in text mode.

i need to get out of text mode, and back into the graphical boot of SUSE!!!!!!!

i dont know if this means anything, but i just installed another 256 ram card. and its been acting up ever since. do i need to use yast to maybe correct it?

once logging into my root i navigated to /sbin/yast2 and i cant find anything that pops out at me saying something about my ram.

like i said this is a time sensitive issue because in a few hours i will no longer have a computer to get online with.

[daark.child]

You probably messed up something in your graphics settings. You need to login to the text interface as root and enter the following commands

init 3
sax2

Sax2 will automatically reconfigure your graphics settings and the next time you reboot, the gui login manager should run.

[striker0204]

ok. could you stay following along with this thread just in case something doesnt go as planned?

im trying that now btw.

[striker0204]

ok. i signed in as root on my text mode, and tried entering both of those commands. both together and seperately and any other combination i could think of and it just came up as -bash: init3: command not found.

same as sax2.

do i need to navigate somewhere in specific in order to utilize these commands?

[daark.child]

The command is "init 3" and not "init3". If you are using openSUSE, sax2 should be installed by default. Enter the command "which sax2" and post back the output.

[striker0204]

i know that, i just mentioned that in case you made a typo just letting you know i tried different varations.

either way, i just tried the which sax2 command, and it didnt bash me this time, but it didnt do anything either. all it did is bring me another line below it
striker@dhcppc0:~>whick sax2
striker@dhcppc0:~>


thats all it does...

am i doing something wrong here?

[daark.child]

You need to be root in order to run the "init" commands and "sax2". sax2 should be in /usr/sbin and init should be in /sbin.

[striker0204]

i assure you i am root. i already mentioned that.

theres only one user on my computer, and thats me.

i can access yast and everything via root.

am i supposed to enter

"sbin/sax2" ? is THAT why? cuz ive just been doing sax2 by itself.

[striker0204]

i found the answer to my own question.

i tried it with the sbin commands and it worked. however it says i need to be a super user?! wtfbbq!

theres only one account..... and i have it.

how do i create a SUPER USER via text mode?

sax is running right now. ill let you know on my progress. the init is the only thing that does not work.

[Jonathan183]

i found the answer to my own question.

i tried it with the sbin commands and it worked. however it says i need to be a super user?! wtfbbq!

theres only one account..... and i have it.

how do i create a SUPER USER via text mode?

sax is running right now. ill let you know on my progress. the init is the only thing that does not work.

When you installed SUSE you will have been asked for a root user password. There should also have been a recommendation to create at least one 'regular user', if you did this then your normal login is not as root. You can change to superuser by typing su at the terminal & you will be prompted for the root password.