Blank screen when opensuse 11.0(pae) boots

[govardhan]

Hai

I am using opesuse 11.0 ,but iam facing blank screen issue when i boot in to suse linux.no booting messages.please share your ideas,it is very useful to me.

thanks in advance.

[mikesd]

So you're saying when it tries to load xwindows all you get is blank screen?

can you get to a console? if you can look in your .xsession-errors in your home directory to see if there are any errors.

[gogalthorp]

Did you do a update the kernel recently? You may need to reinstall your video driver. As root edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (save a bakup before changing.

in the device section edit the driver line to have "vesa" as the driver

type init 5 to restart the GUI report any errors

[govardhan]

Hai,

how to check graphic card driver was uinstalled,
if uinstall how to reinstall,how to find which card it is, please share your ideas its very helpfull to me.

[gogalthorp]

Did changing the "driver" line to "vesa" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf not work?? This one line controls which driver is loaded. It does not matter if any other driver exists on the drive. vesa is a generic driver that should work with any card.

Note you must be logged in as root
If you do not know Linux editors I suggest you use joe or nano
From command line type

joe /etc/X11/xorg.conf

note Linux is case sensitive so watch capitalization

To see what graphics hardware you have. From a command line type
lspci
This will list all PCI devices and you should see the graphics chip set being used.

How to install a proprietary 3D driver depends on which graphics card (chip set) is installed.