Well, John is right, you should use Xorg from Dports to resolve this problem. At least I don't know a better method.
I had the same problem running X from GUI image of DFLY. As I figured out the GUI image built with Xorg from pkgsrc and it won't run on 3.4 image (I don't know why). So the best solution would install a base DragonFlyBSD image (not a GUI) and install X manually with the commands: # pkg update # pkg ins xorg-7.5.2 # pkg ins firefox-20.0,1 # reboot # probably not needed # Xorg -configure # cp ~/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf # startx # will run X with simple twm It should work pretty well. On previous DFLY 3.2 I had troubles viewing HTML5 videos and now it's almost perfect. P.S. I wouldn't recommend installing Xorg from Dports on the GUI image of DragonFly. There are many graphical application that depend on Xorg from pkgsrc. It's a hell to resolve it all manually... Regards, Dmitry. ________________________________ From: John Marino <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 2:40 PM Subject: Re: X not working after upgrade to 3.4 On 5/17/2013 13:20, Ivan Uemlianin wrote: > Dear Justin > > Now installing X on DragonFly 3.2 doesn't work! It bails out during the > building of MesaLib with > > In file included from mach64_context.c:46: > mach64_context.h:302:22: error: byteswap.h: No such file or directory > > This is what I am going to do: > > 1. have a lie down > 2. install a current system without X > 3. use, explore, etc > 4. experiment with installing X > > I live mostly in emacs, and I'm starting to use tmux and mu4e (an email > client for emacs), so 3 will be ok. > > For 4 I shall journey through the bsd and xorg forums of the world. I'll > report back once I've got the answers I need. > > I shall install freebsd rather than DragonFly. That might give me access > to a broader population for 4. > > This Thinkpad x60 is a nice little machine, but it's never had a chance > to shine: it's always had Windows XP or Ubuntu on it, neither of which > are very exciting. DragonFly 3.4 with dports is always an option. It has a much newer xorg server.
