• SUSE newbie

    From philo@philo@privacy.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Fri Jul 5 07:22:00 2024
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    Familiar with Linux but this is my first time with SUSE.

    Installed just fine but I decided I wanted to run it on a different machine.

    Put the drive in another mobo/video and it only boots to command line.

    I've Googled but got useless info on how to reconfigure video from the
    command line.

    Hopefully someone here will have a straightforward explanation.


    thanks
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  • From Carlos E. R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Fri Jul 5 15:12:31 2024
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    On 2024-07-05 14:22, philo wrote:
    Familiar with Linux but this is my first time with SUSE.

    Installed just fine but I decided I wanted to run it on a different
    machine.

    Put the drive in another mobo/video and it only boots to command line.

    I've Googled but got useless info on how to reconfigure video from the command line.

    Hopefully someone here will have a straightforward explanation.

    Guess: the first machine had nvidia card and you installed the
    proprietary driver. The second machine doesn't have nvidia.
    --
    Cheers,
    Carlos E.R.

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  • From philo@philo@privacy.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Fri Jul 5 08:52:13 2024
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    On 7/5/24 8:12 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-05 14:22, philo wrote:
    Familiar with Linux but this is my first time with SUSE.

    Installed just fine but I decided I wanted to run it on a different
    machine.

    Put the drive in another mobo/video and it only boots to command line.

    I've Googled but got useless info on how to reconfigure video from the
    command line.

    Hopefully someone here will have a straightforward explanation.

    Guess: the first machine had nvidia card and you installed the
    proprietary driver. The second machine doesn't have nvidia.



    Not the case.

    Now to answer my question please.
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  • From Johnny@johnny@invalid.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Fri Jul 5 09:11:51 2024
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    On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 08:52:13 -0500
    philo <philo@privacy.net> wrote:

    On 7/5/24 8:12 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-05 14:22, philo wrote:
    Familiar with Linux but this is my first time with SUSE.

    Installed just fine but I decided I wanted to run it on a
    different machine.

    Put the drive in another mobo/video and it only boots to command
    line.

    I've Googled but got useless info on how to reconfigure video from
    the command line.

    Hopefully someone here will have a straightforward explanation.

    Guess: the first machine had nvidia card and you installed the
    proprietary driver. The second machine doesn't have nvidia.



    Not the case.

    Now to answer my question please.

    You should have installed it on the machine you wanted it on the first
    time.

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  • From philo@philo@privacy.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Fri Jul 5 09:39:04 2024
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    On 7/5/24 9:11 AM, Johnny wrote:
    On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 08:52:13 -0500
    philo <philo@privacy.net> wrote:

    On 7/5/24 8:12 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-05 14:22, philo wrote:
    Familiar with Linux but this is my first time with SUSE.

    Installed just fine but I decided I wanted to run it on a
    different machine.

    Put the drive in another mobo/video and it only boots to command
    line.

    I've Googled but got useless info on how to reconfigure video from
    the command line.

    Hopefully someone here will have a straightforward explanation.

    Guess: the first machine had nvidia card and you installed the
    proprietary driver. The second machine doesn't have nvidia.



    Not the case.

    Now to answer my question please.

    You should have installed it on the machine you wanted it on the first
    time.



    Yes. I did a reinstall but that does not answer my question.

    Let's say I wanted to later put in a new video card.

    From the command line, how would I reconfigure?
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  • From Carlos E. R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Fri Jul 5 19:38:02 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 2024-07-05 15:52, philo wrote:
    On 7/5/24 8:12 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-05 14:22, philo wrote:
    Familiar with Linux but this is my first time with SUSE.

    Installed just fine but I decided I wanted to run it on a different
    machine.

    Put the drive in another mobo/video and it only boots to command line.

    I've Googled but got useless info on how to reconfigure video from
    the command line.

    Hopefully someone here will have a straightforward explanation.

    Guess: the first machine had nvidia card and you installed the
    proprietary driver. The second machine doesn't have nvidia.



    Not the case.

    Now to answer my question please.

    Insufficient data to process request.

    Look at the logs for clues.
    --
    Cheers,
    Carlos E.R.

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  • From philo@philo@privacy.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Fri Jul 5 13:10:43 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 7/5/24 12:38 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-05 15:52, philo wrote:
    On 7/5/24 8:12 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-05 14:22, philo wrote:
    Familiar with Linux but this is my first time with SUSE.

    Installed just fine but I decided I wanted to run it on a different
    machine.

    Put the drive in another mobo/video and it only boots to command line. >>>>
    I've Googled but got useless info on how to reconfigure video from
    the command line.

    Hopefully someone here will have a straightforward explanation.

    Guess: the first machine had nvidia card and you installed the
    proprietary driver. The second machine doesn't have nvidia.



    Not the case.

    Now to answer my question please.

    Insufficient data to process request.

    Look at the logs for clues.




    I did and it said I need to reconfigure my video settings.

    Need the command to do so.

    I can open yast2 from the terminal but did not see any way to
    reconfigure video
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  • From Johnny@johnny@invalid.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Fri Jul 5 13:18:14 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 13:10:43 -0500
    philo <philo@privacy.net> wrote:

    On 7/5/24 12:38 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-05 15:52, philo wrote:
    On 7/5/24 8:12 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-05 14:22, philo wrote:
    Familiar with Linux but this is my first time with SUSE.

    Installed just fine but I decided I wanted to run it on a
    different machine.

    Put the drive in another mobo/video and it only boots to command
    line.

    I've Googled but got useless info on how to reconfigure video
    from the command line.

    Hopefully someone here will have a straightforward explanation.

    Guess: the first machine had nvidia card and you installed the
    proprietary driver. The second machine doesn't have nvidia.



    Not the case.

    Now to answer my question please.

    Insufficient data to process request.

    Look at the logs for clues.




    I did and it said I need to reconfigure my video settings.

    Need the command to do so.

    I can open yast2 from the terminal but did not see any way to
    reconfigure video

    Doesn't SUSE have a Settings Manager with Appearance, Display and many
    other items?

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  • From philo@philo@privacy.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Fri Jul 5 13:35:34 2024
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    On 7/5/24 1:18 PM, Johnny wrote:
    On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 13:10:43 -0500
    philo <philo@privacy.net> wrote:

    On 7/5/24 12:38 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-05 15:52, philo wrote:
    On 7/5/24 8:12 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-05 14:22, philo wrote:
    Familiar with Linux but this is my first time with SUSE.

    Installed just fine but I decided I wanted to run it on a
    different machine.

    Put the drive in another mobo/video and it only boots to command
    line.

    I've Googled but got useless info on how to reconfigure video
    from the command line.

    Hopefully someone here will have a straightforward explanation.

    Guess: the first machine had nvidia card and you installed the
    proprietary driver. The second machine doesn't have nvidia.



    Not the case.

    Now to answer my question please.

    Insufficient data to process request.

    Look at the logs for clues.




    I did and it said I need to reconfigure my video settings.

    Need the command to do so.

    I can open yast2 from the terminal but did not see any way to
    reconfigure video

    Doesn't SUSE have a Settings Manager with Appearance, Display and many
    other items?




    That's the problem
    When the display didn't open, the message was to use the settings manager

    As I have asked, what command do I issue to access it?

    Thus far I found yast2 but there was no option to configure the display.


    FWIW: The only reason I installed SUSE was simply to evaluate it, so I
    might as well just poke around on my own,

    Still, if anyone know how to reconfigure video from the command line...
    please pass along the info.
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  • From Dave Royal@dave@dave123royal.com to alt.os.linux.suse on Fri Jul 5 20:03:08 2024
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    philo <philo@privacy.net> Wrote in message:

    On 7/5/24 1:18 PM, Johnny wrote:
    On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 13:10:43 -0500
    philo <philo@privacy.net> wrote:

    On 7/5/24 12:38 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-05 15:52, philo wrote:
    On 7/5/24 8:12 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-05 14:22, philo wrote:
    Familiar with Linux but this is my first time with SUSE.

    Installed just fine but I decided I wanted to run it on a
    different machine.

    Put the drive in another mobo/video and it only boots to command >>>>>>> line.

    I've Googled but got useless info on how to reconfigure video
    from the command line.

    Hopefully someone here will have a straightforward explanation.

    Guess: the first machine had nvidia card and you installed the
    proprietary driver. The second machine doesn't have nvidia.



    Not the case.

    Now to answer my question please.

    Insufficient data to process request.

    Look at the logs for clues.




    I did and it said I need to reconfigure my video settings.

    Need the command to do so.

    I can open yast2 from the terminal but did not see any way to
    reconfigure video

    Doesn't SUSE have a Settings Manager with Appearance, Display and many
    other items?




    That's the problem
    When the display didn't open, the message was to use the settings manager

    As I have asked, what command do I issue to access it?

    Thus far I found yast2 but there was no option to configure the display.


    FWIW: The only reason I installed SUSE was simply to evaluate it, so I
    might as well just poke around on my own,

    Still, if anyone know how to reconfigure video from the command line... please pass along the info.


    Did you install from usb/dvd? If so booting that might have a
    repair option which might configure it.
    --
    Remove numerics from my email address.
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  • From Carlos E. R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Fri Jul 5 21:58:25 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 2024-07-05 20:35, philo wrote:
    On 7/5/24 1:18 PM, Johnny wrote:
    On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 13:10:43 -0500
    philo <philo@privacy.net> wrote:



    Insufficient data to process request.

    Look at the logs for clues.



    I did and it said I need to reconfigure my video settings.

    Surely it said something more verbose than that.


    Need the command to do so.

    I can open yast2 from the terminal but did not see any way to
    reconfigure video

    Doesn't SUSE have a Settings Manager with Appearance, Display and many
    other items?




    That's the problem
    When the display didn't open, the message was to use the settings manager

    As I have asked, what command do I issue to access it?

    Thus far I found yast2 but there was no option to configure the display.


    FWIW: The only reason I installed SUSE was simply to evaluate it, so I
    might as well just poke around on my own,

    Still, if anyone know how to reconfigure video from the command line... please pass along the info.

    It is not trivial. Edit files just as in any distro, manually.

    Considering it is a new install, then just install fresh again, this
    time using the exact hardware you are going to use. Hunting for the
    problem is a waste of time.
    --
    Cheers,
    Carlos E.R.

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  • From philo@philo@novabbs.com (philo) to alt.os.linux.suse on Fri Jul 5 23:08:42 2024
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    I already did a fresh install.

    Still. What I wanted to know is how to reconfigure video from the
    command line.

    I'm always changing hardware on my test machines and needed a good way
    to reconfigure.

    Each OS has its own way of doing things.

    Viz: Ubuntu and Mint are very similar but if I change a video
    card...Ubuntu will automatically reconfigure but Mint (usually) will
    not.

    The other OS I'm evaluating is Fedora.
    So far that one looks pretty good.

    Though SUSE will not be my OS of choice , it runs incredibly well on the
    low end machine I'm using for evaluation.

    There were two other drawbacks however.

    When the machine logs me out, when I attempt to log back in, I'm
    presented with a black screen.

    For me the real kicker was the inability to detect my network printer.

    Every one of the OSes I run, did so automatically...or at least easily.
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  • From Carlos E. R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Sat Jul 6 03:31:29 2024
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    On 2024-07-06 01:08, philo wrote:
    I already did a fresh install.

    Still. What I wanted to know is how to reconfigure video from the
    command line.

    You don't. Either it works automatically, or you are down to editing
    files and perhaps removing or installing packages, when you know which.
    Expert knowledge. There is no longer a configuration utility.
    --
    Cheers,
    Carlos E.R.

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  • From Malcolm@malcolmlewis@linuxmail.org.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Fri Jul 5 21:27:02 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 23:08:42 +0000
    philo@novabbs.com (philo) wrote:

    I already did a fresh install.

    Still. What I wanted to know is how to reconfigure video from the
    command line.

    I'm always changing hardware on my test machines and needed a good way
    to reconfigure.

    Each OS has its own way of doing things.

    Viz: Ubuntu and Mint are very similar but if I change a video
    card...Ubuntu will automatically reconfigure but Mint (usually) will
    not.

    The other OS I'm evaluating is Fedora.
    So far that one looks pretty good.

    Though SUSE will not be my OS of choice , it runs incredibly well on
    the low end machine I'm using for evaluation.

    There were two other drawbacks however.

    When the machine logs me out, when I attempt to log back in, I'm
    presented with a black screen.

    For me the real kicker was the inability to detect my network printer.

    Every one of the OSes I run, did so automatically...or at least
    easily.
    Hi
    It depends on the graphics card, depends on the Desktop environment
    running and also if the desktop environment is running Xorg or Wayland.

    Intel and Nvidia should run fine, depending on the AMD gpu and it's GCN
    version you may need some grub options for either radeon or amdgpu.
    Likewise if you indicate the gpu in use via `inxi -GSaz` would help.

    For the printer, temporarily stop the firewall and test, but I would
    suspect you need to make sure that rCLmdnsrCY (Avahi discovery) and rCLipp-clientrCY (for IPP printers) is allowed in the applicable zone for
    the LAN interface.
    --
    Cheers Malcolm -#-+-# (Linux Counter #276890)
    Tumbleweed 20240704 | GNOME Shell 46.3.1 | 6.9.7-1-default
    HP Z440 | Xeon E5-2695 V4 X36 @ 2.10GHz | ARC A380/Tesla P4
    up 9:33, 2 users, load average: 0.29, 0.33, 0.22

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  • From philo@philo@novabbs.com (philo) to alt.os.linux.suse on Sat Jul 6 10:52:08 2024
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    Thanks.
    Because it runs so well on old H/W I may try it on an old laptop I want
    to give away.

    Right now, on my main machines I'm running Ubuntu, Mint & Fedora.
    I think that's sufficient.
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  • From philo@philo@privacy.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Sat Jul 6 14:55:25 2024
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    Dave Royal wrote:
    philo <philo@privacy.net> Wrote in message:

    On 7/5/24 1:18 PM, Johnny wrote:
    On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 13:10:43 -0500
    philo <philo@privacy.net> wrote:

    On 7/5/24 12:38 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-05 15:52, philo wrote:
    On 7/5/24 8:12 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-05 14:22, philo wrote:
    Familiar with Linux but this is my first time with SUSE.

    Installed just fine but I decided I wanted to run it on a
    different machine.

    Put the drive in another mobo/video and it only boots to command >>>>>>>> line.

    I've Googled but got useless info on how to reconfigure video
    from the command line.

    Hopefully someone here will have a straightforward explanation. >>>>>>> Guess: the first machine had nvidia card and you installed the
    proprietary driver. The second machine doesn't have nvidia.


    Not the case.

    Now to answer my question please.
    Insufficient data to process request.

    Look at the logs for clues.



    I did and it said I need to reconfigure my video settings.

    Need the command to do so.

    I can open yast2 from the terminal but did not see any way to
    reconfigure video
    Doesn't SUSE have a Settings Manager with Appearance, Display and many
    other items?



    That's the problem
    When the display didn't open, the message was to use the settings manager

    As I have asked, what command do I issue to access it?

    Thus far I found yast2 but there was no option to configure the display.


    FWIW: The only reason I installed SUSE was simply to evaluate it, so I
    might as well just poke around on my own,

    Still, if anyone know how to reconfigure video from the command line...
    please pass along the info.


    Did you install from usb/dvd? If so booting that might have a
    repair option which might configure it.


    Yep , tried that too.
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  • From philo@philo@privacy.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Sat Jul 6 14:56:39 2024
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    Malcolm wrote:
    On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 23:08:42 +0000
    philo@novabbs.com (philo) wrote:

    I already did a fresh install.

    Still. What I wanted to know is how to reconfigure video from the
    command line.

    I'm always changing hardware on my test machines and needed a good way
    to reconfigure.

    Each OS has its own way of doing things.

    Viz: Ubuntu and Mint are very similar but if I change a video
    card...Ubuntu will automatically reconfigure but Mint (usually) will
    not.

    The other OS I'm evaluating is Fedora.
    So far that one looks pretty good.

    Though SUSE will not be my OS of choice , it runs incredibly well on
    the low end machine I'm using for evaluation.

    There were two other drawbacks however.

    When the machine logs me out, when I attempt to log back in, I'm
    presented with a black screen.

    For me the real kicker was the inability to detect my network printer.

    Every one of the OSes I run, did so automatically...or at least
    easily.
    Hi
    It depends on the graphics card, depends on the Desktop environment
    running and also if the desktop environment is running Xorg or Wayland.

    Intel and Nvidia should run fine, depending on the AMD gpu and it's GCN version you may need some grub options for either radeon or amdgpu.
    Likewise if you indicate the gpu in use via `inxi -GSaz` would help.

    For the printer, temporarily stop the firewall and test, but I would
    suspect you need to make sure that rCLmdnsrCY (Avahi discovery) and rCLipp-clientrCY (for IPP printers) is allowed in the applicable zone for
    the LAN interface.



    I've never seen a firewall block a printer by default so I just went
    ahead and installed it manually. Worked fine

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  • From Carlos E. R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Sat Jul 6 17:12:14 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 2024-07-06 21:56, philo wrote:
    Malcolm wrote:
    On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 23:08:42 +0000
    philo@novabbs.com (philo) wrote:

    I already did a fresh install.

    Still. What I wanted to know is how to reconfigure video from the
    command line.

    I'm always changing hardware on my test machines and needed a good way
    to reconfigure.

    Each OS has its own way of doing things.

    Viz: Ubuntu and Mint are very similar but if I change a video
    card...Ubuntu will automatically reconfigure but Mint (usually) will
    not.

    The other OS I'm evaluating is Fedora.
    So far that one looks pretty good.

    Though SUSE will not be my OS of choice , it runs incredibly well on
    the low end machine I'm using for evaluation.

    There were two other drawbacks however.

    When the machine logs me out, when I attempt to log back in, I'm
    presented with a black screen.

    For me the real kicker was the inability to detect my network printer.

    Every one of the OSes I run, did so automatically...or at least
    easily.
    Hi
    It depends on the graphics card, depends on the Desktop environment
    running and also if the desktop environment is running Xorg or Wayland.

    Intel and Nvidia should run fine, depending on the AMD gpu and it's GCN
    version you may need some grub options for either radeon or amdgpu.
    Likewise if you indicate the gpu in use via `inxi -GSaz` would help.

    For the printer, temporarily stop the firewall and test, but I would
    suspect you need-a to make sure that rCLmdnsrCY (Avahi discovery) and
    rCLipp-clientrCY (for IPP printers) is allowed in the applicable zone for
    the LAN interface.



    I've never seen a firewall block a printer by default so I just went
    ahead and installed it manually. Worked fine

    It blocks broadcasts, including those coming from printers.
    --
    Cheers,
    Carlos E.R.

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  • From philo@philo@novabbs.com (philo) to alt.os.linux.suse on Sat Jul 6 19:42:11 2024
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    Nope.
    My firewall did not block the printer .
    Took me all of one minute to install it manually .

    I'm getting too spoiled by all the operating systems that do it
    automatically.

    The worst one was my Ubuntu machine.
    Printer installed automatically but with the wrong configuration .

    I had to delete it and install manually.
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  • From philo@philo@novabbs.com (philo) to alt.os.linux.suse on Sat Jul 6 19:46:55 2024
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    I doubt if I'd have much luck manually configuring things.


    Since my internet connection was working, probably what I could have
    done is simply to have un-installed the gui, then re-installed.

    Anyway.

    I tried Suse with no intention to do other than experiment.
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  • From Carlos E. R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Sat Jul 6 22:18:55 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 2024-07-06 21:42, philo wrote:
    Nope.
    My firewall did not block the printer .

    Yours maybe. The openSUSE firewall does block broadcasts, unless you set
    the LAN to trusted.

    Took me all of one minute to install it manually-a .

    As do we all :-)
    --
    Cheers,
    Carlos E.R.

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  • From philo@philo@privacy.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Sat Jul 6 16:54:27 2024
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    On 7/5/24 7:22 AM, philo wrote:
    Familiar with Linux but this is my first time with SUSE.

    Installed just fine but I decided I wanted to run it on a different
    machine.

    Put the drive in another mobo/video and it only boots to command line.

    I've Googled but got useless info on how to reconfigure video from the command line.

    Hopefully someone here will have a straightforward explanation.


    thanks



    Found the problem.
    The original machine had ATI video but the "new" machine had Intel video.
    No Intel driver was installed, so indeed there would have been no way to reconfigure what I had.

    From the command line, I used yast2 and easily installed the intel-vaapi-driver and the machine now boots to the GUI>

    The reason I wanted to know how to do this was...suppose this was NOT a
    new install and it was one that had been in use for years...then the
    mobo died and the drive had to be put in another machine.

    To simply install the right video driver took ten minutes at most.

    Re-installing the entire OS would have been nuts.

    BTW: since I'm working with low end machines, I decided to dump Gnome
    and go with icewm.

    P4 with 3 gigs of RAM is running great


    Thanks to all here for your help.

    Got me pretty much pointed in the right direction.



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  • From philo@philo@privacy.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Sat Jul 6 17:59:28 2024
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    On 7/6/24 3:18 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-06 21:42, philo wrote:
    Nope.
    My firewall did not block the printer .

    Yours maybe. The openSUSE firewall does block broadcasts, unless you set
    the LAN to trusted.

    Took me all of one minute to install it manually-a .

    As do we all :-)


    BTW:

    Your original answer was technically correct.

    Though it was not Nvidia it was indeed the wrong graphics driver.

    Anyway...I learned something in the process...and that was my whole
    point in trying SUSE
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  • From Dave Royal@dave@dave123royal.com to alt.os.linux.suse on Sun Jul 7 07:50:38 2024
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    philo <philo@privacy.net> Wrote in message:

    Dave Royal wrote:
    philo <philo@privacy.net> Wrote in message:

    On 7/5/24 1:18 PM, Johnny wrote:
    On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 13:10:43 -0500
    philo <philo@privacy.net> wrote:

    On 7/5/24 12:38 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-05 15:52, philo wrote:
    On 7/5/24 8:12 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-05 14:22, philo wrote:
    Familiar with Linux but this is my first time with SUSE.

    Installed just fine but I decided I wanted to run it on a
    different machine.

    Put the drive in another mobo/video and it only boots to command >>>>>>>>> line.

    I've Googled but got useless info on how to reconfigure video >>>>>>>>> from the command line.

    Hopefully someone here will have a straightforward explanation. >>>>>>>> Guess: the first machine had nvidia card and you installed the >>>>>>>> proprietary driver. The second machine doesn't have nvidia.


    Not the case.

    Now to answer my question please.
    Insufficient data to process request.

    Look at the logs for clues.



    I did and it said I need to reconfigure my video settings.

    Need the command to do so.

    I can open yast2 from the terminal but did not see any way to
    reconfigure video
    Doesn't SUSE have a Settings Manager with Appearance, Display and many >>>> other items?



    That's the problem
    When the display didn't open, the message was to use the settings manager >>>
    As I have asked, what command do I issue to access it?

    Thus far I found yast2 but there was no option to configure the display. >>>

    FWIW: The only reason I installed SUSE was simply to evaluate it, so I
    might as well just poke around on my own,

    Still, if anyone know how to reconfigure video from the command line...
    please pass along the info.


    Did you install from usb/dvd? If so booting that might have a
    repair option which might configure it.


    Yep , tried that too.

    And presumably it didn't work - that's worth knowing. I normally
    update from DVD and I've used 'repair' on a few occasions.


    And I learned from this thread that the console version (ncurses I
    assume) of yast doesn't include all the functions of the GUI
    version. I assumed it did. When I recently updated to 15.6 the
    GUI yast didn't work and I used the console one for a while -
    quite nostalgic!
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  • From Carlos E. R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Sun Jul 7 12:15:48 2024
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    On 2024-07-06 23:54, philo wrote:
    On 7/5/24 7:22 AM, philo wrote:
    Familiar with Linux but this is my first time with SUSE.

    Installed just fine but I decided I wanted to run it on a different
    machine.

    Put the drive in another mobo/video and it only boots to command line.

    I've Googled but got useless info on how to reconfigure video from the
    command line.

    Hopefully someone here will have a straightforward explanation.


    thanks



    Found the problem.
    The original machine had ATI video but the "new" machine had Intel video.
    No Intel driver was installed, so indeed there would have been no way to reconfigure what I had.

    From the command line, I used yast2 and easily installed the intel-vaapi-driver and the machine now boots to the GUI>

    That's strange. In the past, a mobo with intel graphics would just work.
    Well, at least in X and icewm, maybe not with Wayland.
    --
    Cheers,
    Carlos E.R.

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  • From Carlos E. R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Sun Jul 7 12:18:35 2024
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    On 2024-07-07 08:50, Dave Royal wrote:
    philo <philo@privacy.net> Wrote in message:

    Dave Royal wrote:
    philo <philo@privacy.net> Wrote in message:



    Did you install from usb/dvd? If so booting that might have a
    repair option which might configure it.


    Yep , tried that too.

    And presumably it didn't work - that's worth knowing. I normally
    update from DVD and I've used 'repair' on a few occasions.

    openSUSE DVD doesn't have an automatic repair option since over a
    decade, it was removed.

    And I learned from this thread that the console version (ncurses I
    assume) of yast doesn't include all the functions of the GUI
    version. I assumed it did. When I recently updated to 15.6 the
    GUI yast didn't work and I used the console one for a while -
    quite nostalgic!

    Yes, it has all the modules. If there is one that is missing, that's a reportable bug.
    --
    Cheers,
    Carlos E.R.

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  • From Dave Royal@dave@dave123royal.com to alt.os.linux.suse on Sun Jul 7 12:00:48 2024
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    "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> Wrote in message:

    On 2024-07-07 08:50, Dave Royal wrote:
    philo <philo@privacy.net> Wrote in message:

    Dave Royal wrote:
    philo <philo@privacy.net> Wrote in message:



    Did you install from usb/dvd? If so booting that might have a
    repair option which might configure it.


    Yep , tried that too.

    And presumably it didn't work - that's worth knowing. I normally
    update from DVD and I've used 'repair' on a few occasions.

    openSUSE DVD doesn't have an automatic repair option since over a
    decade, it was removed.

    You're right. I was thinking of Rescue mode.

    And I learned from this thread that the console version (ncurses I
    assume) of yast doesn't include all the functions of the GUI
    version. I assumed it did. When I recently updated to 15.6 the
    GUI yast didn't work and I used the console one for a while -
    quite nostalgic!

    Yes, it has all the modules. If there is one that is missing, that's a reportable bug.

    OP said it couldn't detect/reconfigure the video. Should it have
    been be able to? (I don't have my machine here.) <https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book-reference/cha-yast-text.html>
    --
    Remove numerics from my email address.
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  • From Carlos E. R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Sun Jul 7 14:41:29 2024
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    On 2024-07-07 13:00, Dave Royal wrote:
    "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> Wrote in message:

    On 2024-07-07 08:50, Dave Royal wrote:
    philo <philo@privacy.net> Wrote in message:

    Dave Royal wrote:
    philo <philo@privacy.net> Wrote in message:



    Did you install from usb/dvd? If so booting that might have a
    repair option which might configure it.


    Yep , tried that too.

    And presumably it didn't work - that's worth knowing. I normally
    update from DVD and I've used 'repair' on a few occasions.

    openSUSE DVD doesn't have an automatic repair option since over a
    decade, it was removed.

    You're right. I was thinking of Rescue mode.

    Ah, yes. It uses more basic graphical modes which should work on any
    machine.


    And I learned from this thread that the console version (ncurses I
    assume) of yast doesn't include all the functions of the GUI
    version. I assumed it did. When I recently updated to 15.6 the
    GUI yast didn't work and I used the console one for a while -
    quite nostalgic!

    Yes, it has all the modules. If there is one that is missing, that's a
    reportable bug.

    OP said it couldn't detect/reconfigure the video. Should it have
    been be able to? (I don't have my machine here.) <https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book-reference/cha-yast-text.html>

    AFAIK, there is no graphical configuration module in YaST, that
    disappeared years ago. Instead, the distribution relies in the autoconfiguration powers of X or wayland. If that fails, you have rescue
    mode (I also forgot about it) and editing files, or installing/removing packages.
    --
    Cheers,
    Carlos E.R.

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  • From philo@philo@privacy.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Sun Jul 7 11:00:52 2024
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    On 7/7/24 6:00 AM, Dave Royal wrote:
    "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> Wrote in message:

    On 2024-07-07 08:50, Dave Royal wrote:
    philo <philo@privacy.net> Wrote in message:

    Dave Royal wrote:
    philo <philo@privacy.net> Wrote in message:



    Did you install from usb/dvd? If so booting that might have a
    repair option which might configure it.


    Yep , tried that too.

    And presumably it didn't work - that's worth knowing. I normally
    update from DVD and I've used 'repair' on a few occasions.

    openSUSE DVD doesn't have an automatic repair option since over a
    decade, it was removed.

    You're right. I was thinking of Rescue mode.

    And I learned from this thread that the console version (ncurses I
    assume) of yast doesn't include all the functions of the GUI
    version. I assumed it did. When I recently updated to 15.6 the
    GUI yast didn't work and I used the console one for a while -
    quite nostalgic!

    Yes, it has all the modules. If there is one that is missing, that's a
    reportable bug.

    OP said it couldn't detect/reconfigure the video. Should it have
    been be able to? (I don't have my machine here.) <https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book-reference/cha-yast-text.html>



    Booting with the DVD did have a rescue mode.

    It probably would have worked if the OS was corrupt but in my case, it
    was not a corrupt OS per se...simply a lack of the right video driver.
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  • From Carlos E. R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Sun Jul 7 19:53:15 2024
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    On 2024-07-07 18:00, philo wrote:
    On 7/7/24 6:00 AM, Dave Royal wrote:
    "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> Wrote in message:


    openSUSE DVD doesn't have an automatic repair option since over a
    decade, it was removed.

    You're right. I was thinking of Rescue mode.

    And I learned from this thread that the console version (ncurses I
    -a-a assume) of yast doesn't include all the functions of the GUI
    -a-a version. I assumed it did. When I recently updated to 15.6 the
    -a-a GUI yast didn't work and I used the console one for a while -
    -a-a quite nostalgic!

    Yes, it has all the modules. If there is one that is missing, that's a
    reportable bug.

    OP said it couldn't detect/reconfigure the video. Should it have
    -a been be able to? (I don't have my machine here.)
    <https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book-reference/cha-yast-text.html>



    Booting with the DVD did have a rescue mode.

    It probably would have worked if the OS was corrupt but in my case, it
    was not a corrupt OS per se...simply a lack of the right video driver.

    No, is one of the boot options of the installed system.
    --
    Cheers,
    Carlos E.R.

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  • From philo@philo@privacy.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Sun Jul 7 13:47:35 2024
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    On 7/7/24 12:53 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-07 18:00, philo wrote:
    On 7/7/24 6:00 AM, Dave Royal wrote:
    "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> Wrote in message:


    openSUSE DVD doesn't have an automatic repair option since over a
    decade, it was removed.

    You're right. I was thinking of Rescue mode.

    And I learned from this thread that the console version (ncurses I
    -a-a assume) of yast doesn't include all the functions of the GUI
    -a-a version. I assumed it did. When I recently updated to 15.6 the
    -a-a GUI yast didn't work and I used the console one for a while -
    -a-a quite nostalgic!

    Yes, it has all the modules. If there is one that is missing, that's a >>>> reportable bug.

    OP said it couldn't detect/reconfigure the video. Should it have
    -a been be able to? (I don't have my machine here.)
    <https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book-reference/cha-yast-text.html>



    Booting with the DVD did have a rescue mode.

    It probably would have worked if the OS was corrupt but in my case, it
    was not a corrupt OS per se...simply a lack of the right video driver.

    No, is one of the boot options of the installed system.



    I just booted with the DVD and the rescue mode is there>


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  • From Carlos E. R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Mon Jul 8 02:50:02 2024
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    On 2024-07-07 20:47, philo wrote:
    On 7/7/24 12:53 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
    On 2024-07-07 18:00, philo wrote:
    On 7/7/24 6:00 AM, Dave Royal wrote:
    "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> Wrote in message:


    openSUSE DVD doesn't have an automatic repair option since over a
    decade, it was removed.

    You're right. I was thinking of Rescue mode.

    And I learned from this thread that the console version (ncurses I >>>>>> -a-a assume) of yast doesn't include all the functions of the GUI
    -a-a version. I assumed it did. When I recently updated to 15.6 the >>>>>> -a-a GUI yast didn't work and I used the console one for a while - >>>>>> -a-a quite nostalgic!

    Yes, it has all the modules. If there is one that is missing, that's a >>>>> reportable bug.

    OP said it couldn't detect/reconfigure the video. Should it have
    -a been be able to? (I don't have my machine here.)
    <https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book-reference/cha-yast-text.html>



    Booting with the DVD did have a rescue mode.

    It probably would have worked if the OS was corrupt but in my case,
    it was not a corrupt OS per se...simply a lack of the right video
    driver.

    No, is one of the boot options of the installed system.



    I just booted with the DVD and the rescue mode is there>

    That's not the same one.
    --
    Cheers,
    Carlos E.R.

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