Why isn't the mouse working with DragonflyBSD in Virtualbox?
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I have been facing the problem for months, where I can't run startx and startxfce4 after installing those packages
As mentioned here I have to run
If I press ^C,
Xorg -configure
to start off. But when I run the same, the last 2 lines I get are:
> Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file
>
> Abort trap (core dumped)
Now if I ignore Xorg -configure
, and simply run startx
, it says
> xauth: file /root/.serverauth.766 does not exist
>
> xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name ":0" in "add" command
>
> xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "list" command
>
> xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name ":0" in "add" command
And after a while:
> xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "/unix:0" in "list" command
The contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log looks like this:

startx
runs successfully, I see 3 terminals, as expected, but the mouse doesn't work at all. I can't move the mouse and click anything. The keyboard works on the activated terminal.
If I do startxfce4, xfce4 starts, but again, mouse doesn't work.
I have tried changing the Pointing Device
in VirtualBox, but none from the available options worked.
I also had a previous installation which worked fine until I deleted the VM. After that whenever I try to reinstall DragonflyBSD, I get errors like these.
Is there a way to fix this whole issue?
Asked by 15 Volts
(2149 rep)
Oct 22, 2019, 05:07 PM
Last activity: Nov 4, 2019, 02:09 AM
Last activity: Nov 4, 2019, 02:09 AM