pciconf -lv | grep -B 4 VGA vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x84391043 chip=0x0fc610de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' device = 'GK107 [GeForce GTX 650]' class = display subclass = VGA cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver Driver "nvidia"

removed nvidia-modeset from rc.conf. New rc.conf looks like #kldload_nvidia="nvidia-modeset nvidia" kldload_nvidia="nvidia" root_rw_mount="NO" sendmail_enable="NONE" sendmail_submit_enable="NO" sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" sendmail_msp_que...

I installed all the nvidia-drivers (one at a time of course)
nvidia-driver-390 produces no X but gives me a login prompt
nvidia-driver-340 and nvidia-driver-304 starts X but I get only a blank screen but the system is locked up. Could not login from a remote machine either. Had to power cycle.

rgeorgia@minighost ~> pciconf -lv | grep -A 4 -i vga
vgapci0@pci0:5:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x00c0106b chip=0x08a410de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
device = 'MCP89 [GeForce 320M]'
class = display
subclass = VGA

How would I know which driver to use? rgeorgia@minighost ~> pkg search nvidia nvidia-driver-390.87 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering nvidia-driver-304-304.137_1 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering nvidia-driver-340-340.107_1 NVidia graphi...

I added this to my loader.conf file hw.pci.enable_msi="0" Found that solution here: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/installing-on-a-mac-mini-2010-model.31423/ Interesting. I googled FreeBSD install on Mac Mini 2010... imagine that? The graphics still respond only to scfb as driver. nvid...

Also, sshd is set at rc-status of manual. Maybe set to default or ask if user want sshd on startup? rc-status Runlevel: default dbus [ started 00:16:38 (0) ] cupsd [ started 00:16:37 (0) ] moused [ started ] xconfig [ started ] hald [ started ] webcamd [ started ] devfs [ started ] netmount [ starte...

I just ran nvidia-xconfig. It changed my xorg.conf to use the nvidia driver. Reboot. X never came up, it hung right after telling me that bge0 was not responding. I changed the driver back to scfb and things are "sluggishly" working. Any ideas on getting bge0 to work? sudo dmesg | grep bge...

The initial attempt to bring up the “live” desktop failed. Once X failed I was dropped to a shell prompt. I did X -configure, changed the driver from nv to scfb and moved the new xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I typed “exit” at the prompt and was greeted with GhostBSD desktop. I completed the inst...

I found the issue, which was two fold. One, I added vboxdrv_load="YES" to boot/loader.conf. and I changed the default nework to NAT. Now it works.