[SOLVED] GUI dosent appear..

[edward22]

i have insatalled suse 10.1 on my pc last 2008
until next year something happen to to it,, the gui of the said suse10.1 dosent appear any more..

when i see the screen failsafe.

it direct to terminal just like pressing alt2

but when i tried pressing alt1 alt2 alt3 etc.... gui dosent appear anymore

can you please help me with this one......

it is easier for me to use GUI than terminal because i dont know all the commands in linux..

thank you.....

[Lakshmipathi]

After logged into terminal as root via failstate
TRy

startx

to start you gui interface. Though i never tried startx with suse . This solution works well for other distros.

In case If your /etc/inittab has an entry like this

id:3:initdefault

then change it to

id:5:initdefault

Ps:Make a backup of /etc/inittab file before editing.

[gogalthorp]

It ma be that you did a kernel update and you are using a 3rd party 3D acceleration driver like NVIDIA if so you need to reinstall the driver so it hooks into the new Kernel.

You can use a generic 2D driver to temporarily get a desk top until you can reinstall by logging on as root. Then

init 3
to be sure you shutdown all X related process
edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (to use joe editor joe /etc/X11/xorg.conf)
change the line
driver "somedriver" where somedriver is the name of the 3D driver
to
driver "vesa"

save
then
init 5
to start the GUI

[edward22]

THANK S GUYS>..

for your help i just change init3 form init 5 and already work

thanks so much.....