[suse] white screen of death!

[ranj]

hi

 

Was playing about with Opensuse as I only installed it last week and started to play around with the fancy graphics so went to the graphics option and selected enable graphics.

 

 

Since I have enabled the desktop effect I am resulted with the WHITE SCREEN OF DEATH.

 

I'm cannot see see any fonts, icons, bars, buttons... (By the way, this white cube of death still rotates properly.)

 

I can get onto the cli if I choose opensuse failsafe option but dont know if there is a command I can type to reset the settings.

 

Any ideas?

[Arcath]

in the cli type in "/sbin/yast2" i cant rember if you can configure desktop effects from there. been a whilse scince i used suse

[ricki]

you need to contact Geof he is a linux guru.

 

Richard

[kmount]

Might be worth checking out /etc/X11/xorg.conf and setting the driver to vesa (obviously being careful to copy what is there now to put it back if it doesn't work).

 

I don't know much about Suse, but yast2 would have been the first place I looked too.

[llawwehttam]

personally when having problems with suse i always booted up into the command line and simply typed yast.

It gave me enough settings to fix most problems i came across.

 

If its just the desktop effect thingy then there is a setting in yast to fix it.

If you go to sax2 when in yast it resets the X11 system so fixing most problems

 

hope this helps

Edited September 16, 2009 by llawwehttam