SuSe Linux help

[master]

I loaded Suse Linux on my computer, and started it up, and it went to it's prompt, but how do you get to the gui version of the OS? I'm just stumped..

And I never used linux b4...

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MasJ, you might know this...

[Norgus]

erm normally SUSE automatically detects your graphics hardware and runs an X server based on the settings from that.

what GFX card you got?

also a long shot is to try logging in as your root user form the shell (erm prompt as you call it) and try typing
gdm
if that fails try holding alt and then F7 and see if there is anything usefull there in the form of logs or something.

[ZeikHunter]

NORGOOZE to teh rescue, heheh. im having that same problem with freeBSD. gdm & kdm commands refuse to work, and the install of the packs im rather uncertain about, im running it on VMWare, so i dunno...

[Ace]

Originally posted by master
I loaded Suse Linux on my computer, and started it up, and it went to it's prompt, but how do you get to the gui version of the OS? I'm just stumped..

And I never used linux b4...

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MasJ, you might know this...

Should work the moment you installed it, what are your PC's specifications, and are there any error messages? Could try and type startx

[torpedo009]

Hzmm.....if startx doesn't work then login as root (type in 'su'without the quotes and type in your root pass), type in 'sax2' (no quotes) and press enter. I'm not too sure whether it'll work on version 9, but it works on 8.2 for sure.

[Norgus]

I know in gentoo if I mess up my X config and gdm won't start (I don't have KDE installed) then I only have to edit my /etc/X11/XF86Config file back to a working state ( Ive been trying to get the "nvidia" driver to work for my GFX card to have hardware acceleration, but it won't work so far and I have to set the driver back to "nv" )

im not totally sure but try changing your driver to "nv" if you have som model of geforce or ortherwise "vesa" or "vga".


if unsure how to do this you type the name of an editor and then the filename to edit, and make your changes to the graphics section.

I use:
nano /etc/X11/XF86Config
or:
vim /etc/X11/XF86Config

hope you can make some sense of that.

[madcrow]

note to any noobs. use pico or nano, not vim to do you're configuration file editing. you'll save yourself lots of grief that way. also, stay away from emacs until u have a working gui. emacs sux w/o mouse+menus.

[master]

I am running it on VMWare, It's the only way, but thank you all...