I am following this video tutorail on how to set up DragonFlyBSD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPSP_9cNgOc&list=PLt69ZO6X8Hs2qcwYpmNnKyYWM_pum2LT3&index=20&t=113s

The only thing I have done differently was that I installed this on VirtualBox, I did install slim slim-themes however I did not add it via /etc/rc.config "slim_enable='YES" I did not add that at all, and I added an extra line, moused_enable="YES" and I logged in as root user.
For some reason when I typed startxfce4, I got this error message.

exec: xinit: not found

So I installed xinit pkg install xinit.

and when I tried to run startxfce4 again and I get this error message.

(EE) no screens found(EE)

What do I do from here to fix this issue?

  • Jay replied to this.

    joe213 you will need dbus and hald also installed.. I will suggest adding

    exec startxfce4

    To ~/.xinitrc

    And do startx

    “Only the paranoid survive.”

    ― Harold Finch
    NetBSD VPS , NetBSD , OS108

        Jay

        Jay exec startxfce4

        To ~/.xinitrc

        I did do that as well.

        dbus is already installed and hald does not exist

        I did do startx and again I get the same error.

        • Jay replied to this.

              joe213 did you configure xorg as shown in documentation above I shared ?

              “Only the paranoid survive.”

              ― Harold Finch
              NetBSD VPS , NetBSD , OS108

                  Jay Ok so DragonflyBSD mentions that if startx does not work, refer to FreeBSD 5.4

                  https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x-config.html

                  So over here, I tried the first command and i got this error.

                  rename /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /root/xorg.conf.etc: no such file or directory.

                  If I ran this OS on actual hardware, would it work fine?

                  • Jay replied to this.

                      joe213 why aren't you following dragonflybsd documentation I shared you? It shows how to configure xorg ?

                      “Only the paranoid survive.”

                      ― Harold Finch
                      NetBSD VPS , NetBSD , OS108

                          Jay Cause on the site itself it said if startx is failing to load, then refer to FreeBSD and in my case startx did fail to load so I did follow its instructions.

                            3 months later

                            joe213 I think you were missing kld_list="/boot/modules/i915kms.ko" in your rc.conf which enables the use of Intel drivers causing this issue.