can't boot into gui

[pharo212]

I'm using SuSe SLED 10. After a restart, everytime I boot up i'm in the command line. I've tried startx and done a lot of googling looking for solutions. Any idea what to do?

[Dapper Dan]

If running startx doesn't give you a "GUI" what does it give you? Perhaps some error messages? Look for the ones that have (EE) beside them, write them down and post the error messages here please.

[pharo212]

it shows me this grey screen with an X cursor that I can move, but nothing else, then it skips back to a command line.

[devils casper]

Try to reconfigure Graphics Card. Execute this

sax2

In case it doesn't work, execute this

su -
lspci | grep -i vga
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Post output here.

[pharo212]

the first one got me to the sax2 setup screen fine. It apparently changed the screen res, but then after it closed it was the same. afterwards, startx failed but the grey screen was higher res.

Second one gave me
01:00.0 vga compatable controller: VIA technologies, Inc. Unknown device, 3371 (rev 01)

and then
Driver "kbd"
driver "synaptics"
driver "mouse"
driver "via"

nothing else.

[devils casper]

Open /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and replace "via" with "vesa".

su -
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Press Ctrl+X, Y and hit Enter key to save file. Reboot machine.

[pharo212]

It's telling me "nano" isn't a command.

[devils casper]

Ok !
Replace nano with vi.
Press i to start editing. Press Esc key, full colon ( : ) and x. Hit Enter key to save file.

vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
i
:x

[pharo212]

I followed your instructions in the last post. still nothing.

[devils casper]

Did you replace "via" with "vesa"?
Does this command list "vesa" now?

grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf