Comments on: DragonFly as a desktop

By: Lars Schotte

Lars Schotte — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 06:34:12 +0000

When it is a Radeon graphics card it should work and I would first investigate how is it possible that it does not. Older Radeon graphics should all work.

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 02:19:03 +0000

Alex Laurie – can you be specific about which tools? I’m asking because it sounds like a good idea overall, but I’m not using PC-BSD right now so I don’t know which ones would be an easy, obvious transition and which ones would be a difficult mess to bring over.

By: Alex Laurie

Alex Laurie — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 22:43:49 +0000

What about porting in the PC-BSD utilities to help with common gui commands that Dfly inherits from FreeBSD?

By: Duarte

Duarte — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:46:56 +0000

When I said distro, I had in mind a more linux-like definition: pretty GUI installer, splash screen, GUI dports, things of this sort.

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 01:53:57 +0000

In reply to Duarte. There's a GUI option to build each release (see src/nrelease) that needs some work; there'd be a 'distro' right out of the box if that was fixed up to work with dports.

By: Duarte

Duarte — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:02:40 +0000

Someone should start a distro based on DragonFly, could be helpful to spot the wrongs and bring some attention to us (DBSD & general-BSD).

By: Anon22

Anon22 — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 07:19:06 +0000

Good post. Maybe create “Troubleshoots” or “DragonFly as a Desktop” wiki page? (or at least add tag :))

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 02:27:41 +0000

You are correct. I think I needed to do it at the time of my initial install some weeks ago, and a later commit changed that. Or I was just confused. Could be either!

By: Sascha Wildner

Sascha Wildner — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 14:41:08 +0000

If it was master, you should not be needing any moused related lines in rc.conf, as it will start/stop automatically upon mouse plugging/unplugging.