[SOLVED] not able to get into the gui...

[dineshk93]

hi ppl i'm realli a noob in linux..so pls explain this to me like am a 6 year old...

my boot screen in open suse 10.3 turns out to be the terminal screen...n even if i log in,,i'm not able to get into the gui stuff...wat command will get me in there..is there a solution or have i damaged some critical files or something??pls help me out..

thank you...

[Quarlington]

You are able to login and get a command prompt?

Try: startx

[sdimhoff]

I'm not sure what OpenSUSE defaults to, but you can also just manually start the display manager:

Example for xdm
/etc/init.d/xdm start (as root)

this will bring you into a login screen where you can log in with your normal user.

[neognomic]

hi ppl i'm realli a noob in linux..so pls explain this to me like am a 6 year old...

my boot screen in open suse 10.3 turns out to be the terminal screen...n even if i log in,,i'm not able to get into the gui stuff...wat command will get me in there..is there a solution or have i damaged some critical files or something??pls help me out..

thank you...

so you login at the prompt. Good!
Now type

less /var/log/Xorg.0.log

and tell us what it says is the problem.
[less is a pager(text viewer); display text one page at a time; "q" quits.]

Next, if you feel adventurous, you can fix the problem, most likely, w/o input from here. You probably need to setup the graphics card and monitor since the most common problem at this place is that X cannot start because the configuration is not correct. YaST via SAX should be able to fix the xorg.conf file for you.
Type

su

It will ask for the superuser's password; provide it.
Type

yast2

and navigate with keyboard up|down arrows to Hardware then to Graphics ... with right arrow.
TAB key will work to get you into the correct box|location if you get lost.
I|we cannot help much with choices since we have no HW info ...
Make the correct choices and exit YaST.

Now type

kill `pidof kdm`

(those are backquotes)
Then type

kdm

If the kdm screen starts, as we hope, you will need to ALT+F1 (i.e., hold and press both the ALT and F1 keys) to access the CLI you were at before. Type

exit

to logout root. Then

exit

again to logout the user.
Now ALT+F7 to get back to the KDM login screen and login with your username and password.

[Prbly not needed but: Note that if you are a GNOME user then, "gdm" is the authenticator, not kdm.
If you do not have gnome or kdm installed, then it's XDM or bypassing the login screen altogether by using startxfce4, startkde, startx ...*whatever from the CLI in init 3 runlevel.]

[texasriffraff]

This post fixed me right up. Thanx for posting.

[ramkumar99]

hi,
you just rename u r xorg.config file and run 'sax2' command