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[réjean]

Hi all!I decided to install SuSE 10.1 since the finale 10.1 keeps being postponed. I installed it and made the changes in my PCLos lilo and everything should be ok. I can boot into SuSE and everything goes well until the login where I get a prompt login. I can use my username and my password and get in but when I try "startx" I get the famous verbiage about "xorg". Fine!I go back into PCLos and

[rejean@localhost ~]$ suPassword:[root@localhost rejean]# mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4[root@localhost rejean]# cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /mnt/hda4/etc/X11/cp: overwrite `/mnt/hda4/etc/X11/xorg.conf'? y[root@localhost rejean]#

Then if I go into SuSE and kindda do it the other way around it is supposed to be ok but I still can't get any graphics. Any clues?

[Bruno]

Well sometimes you can use the xorg.conf of another distro . . . but not always !!Looks to me you have to run "SaX" ( or was it sax or sax2 ? ) to configure X at the commandline. Bruno

[réjean]

Thanks Bruno!Will give it a try! Have a good night!

[réjean]

Well it's not working! Only sax2 is not refused as long as I am in runlevel 3 but still I don't get anything to configure with. I tried YaST and was told that it cannot be used because startx is not install. Does anyone know what command I can use to install an application in SuSE. Is it:

apt-get install...

?What is SuSE based on Debian?

[Bruno]

No apt-get . . . . SUSE is RPM based ;) Bruno

[réjean]

Should I go ahead and reinstall the whole thing? I'll go in Bruno's tips and see how to RPM first.

[striker]

Got this from another forum, I hope it helps...Can you switch to text console with Ctrl+Alt+F1? In this case, login as root and type init 3, then sax2, configure graphics, save and exit, type init 5 and hope that it works now.If Ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn't work, try the following: instead of failsafe boot, press (I think) F3 to get a grub command-line. Type '3' and continue normal booting. This should bring you into runlevel 3. Try again like above.If the screen goes to about half size and displays two garbled version of Linux start up, the mouse icon also becomes a fuzzy square...thenyou could try sax2 in a vesa mode. ... ie either sax2 -m 0=vesa or sax2 -m 1=vesa. The 0 or 1 correspond to your graphic chipset. You can find out that by typing sax2 -p.Good luck !

[réjean]

Thanks a lot striker!It worked!!! Took me a few attempts and I still have some feedling to do but I do have some graphics and I can take it from here. Will definitely keep your suggestions in my notes. Funny thing is that I had no graphics problems installing SuSE 9.3 or 10.1 Alphas (1 and 2).Anyway greatly appreciated Bruno and Striker!

[mhbell]

réjean, on Feb 17 2006, 05:22 PM, said:

Thanks a lot striker!It worked!!! Took me a few attempts and I still have some feedling to do but I do have some graphics and I can take it from here. Will definitely keep your suggestions in my notes. Funny thing is that I had no graphics problems installing SuSE 9.3 or 10.1 Alphas (1 and 2).Anyway greatly appreciated Bruno and Striker!

I had problems with the commercial boxed 10.0 version and some of the 10.1 alpha but the beta 3 seems to work Ok for me now and at least the shutdown problem is fixed but there are still problems with it. they are at beta 5 right now..Mel

[réjean]

mhbell, on Feb 17 2006, 10:26 PM, said:

I had problems with the commercial boxed 10.0 version and some of the 10.1 alpha but the beta 3 seems to work Ok for me now and at least the shutdown problem is fixed but there are still problems with it. they are at beta 5 right now..Mel

Thanks Mel!Where do you find it? If I go here all I can find is beta 3, anyway I've got 10.0 working now, replying from it so that's what I'll use for awhile.

[mhbell]

réjean, on Feb 17 2006, 07:40 PM, said:

Thanks Mel!Where do you find it? If I go here all I can find is beta 3, anyway I've got 10.0 working now, replying from it so that's what I'll use for awhile.

Sorry I misread 5 won't be released until Feb 23rd. 4 should have been released yesterday the 16th.MelPS for more info:Upcoming SUSE Linux ReleasesSUSE Linux 10.1 ScheduleFeb 02, 2006SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta 3 release.Feb 16, 2006SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta 4 release.Feb 23, 2006SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta 5 release. Mar 1, 2006The schedule after Beta 5 is currently evaluated.

[Gary]

I have given up on Suse 10.1. I have tried all 3 beta's and my sound will not work on either of them. I will wait until the final release and then give it one more try.