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   Message 137,934 of 138,051   
   philo to philo   
   Re: SUSE newbie Figured it out !!!   
   06 Jul 24 16:54:27   
   
   From: philo@privacy.net   
      
   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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