Razumovsky as in the string quartets? OK, one last push: dragonflybsd 3.4 with dports x. I'll report back.
Best wishes Ivan -- festina lente On 18 May 2013, at 10:16, Dmitry Razumovsky <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > >
