Machine: Laptop Toshiba Satellite L555.11L Graphics card: ATI Mobility radeon HD 5165 Release: dfly-x86_64-gui-3.2.2_REL.iso
Hi! I have already sent this post to the bugs list, but the bugs list doesn't want this. Perhaps the good list for my "problem" is the users list… I have downloaded the .iso file (MD5 test is good) to try the Live DVD. It was good until the prompt: "dfly-live #". When I'd tried to launch X (startx) at the end of the startup process I'd received this error message: [EE] Failed to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0) [1] 780 [2] 781 xscreensaver: Command not found [3] 782 [1] Exit1 (limit core0: xscreensaver) Agent pid 785 /usr/pkg/bin/fvwm2: Command not found /usr/pkg/bin/xinit: connexion to X server lost waiting for X server shutdown Xauth: (argv) : 1 : bad display name "dfly-live : 0" in "remove" command dfly-live# I'd tried to reconfigure X: dfly-live# Xorg -configure > xorg.conf.new and after to test it: dfly-live# Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new Black screen! There are some other posts around Internet about more or less the same error message (for example: http://readlist.com/lists/lists.dragonflybsd.org/users/2/11811.html), not necessarily for the ATI cards, but I don't find the explication and the solution, if there is a solution at this time. Can someone explain me what is the problem and if is there a solution other than to buy a BSD "compatible" hardware? Thank you in advance. PS One of the reasons which pushed me to try DragonFly BSD was the difficult to find a BSD OS that runs X on my machine. I have read in someplace that the BSD OSs have problems with the graphics cards ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5 serie and also with some of the (other) latest ATI cards. I have tried many of these OSs and the results were: - NetBSD: X doesn't run; - FreeBSD: the pointer mouse is frozen; - PC-BSD: with the live DVD X runs only with a low resolution (800 X 600) and the image at the screen isn't good; - OpenBSD: for now the same resolution than for PC-BSD, but the result is better; - DFly BSD: see above. Contrariwise with Windows 7 and various Linux distros X runs at a high resolution (1600 x 900).
