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> On 25/09/2011, at 10:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> >> After I installed open SUSE 11.4 on 5/May/11 the system booted OK, normally, >> through to the Gnome desktop. >> Sometime later an automatic update occurred after which I have only been >> able to boot through in failsafe mode. Letting in boot through normally >> makes for the display disappearing off the screen but I think it is still >> booting through because, after I allow the time expected for a full boot >> through, I can hear/instigate sounds. >> Subsequent updates haven't corrected this fault and it's occurred the same >> on 2 separate installations - one on a pentium 4 HP, the other on a 64 bit >> P5 Acer. >> Anyone with any solutions to this? > > Joseph What happens if you press <ctrl><alt><F1> to go to a text screen (tty1)? If it gives you a login screen, then login as root and use sax. Not sure if this is the culprit, but when I used SuSE I found that it sometimes broke the video driver for my nVidia card during upgrades. Easy to fix with sax as it will run in text mode. Just a thought Heracles -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5+sfgACgkQybPcBAs9CE+E5gCffX/ahq+/6GXDIm5cg792e7TN 3Z0AoIgR2sOkNuaK8YQ4mBvi7jDxZSpv =LSHi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
