To trouble shoot this issue further, I rolled back the driver to nvidia-304.137 and rebooted. The system booted normally and the system appeared to be in function order (recommended resolution and color depth). However the reported issues persisted -- so it was not just a driver issue, unless it aff...

Yes, I'm sure I installed the driver correctly: the screen is running very nicely at the recommended resolution (1920x1080). Like you, I was running PC-BSD on the same hardware before with no issues on an older Nvidia driver. I'm 95% confident my issue is not the video driver because the windows are...

would `startx` not work for your use case? I think startx does some environment initialization then calls xinit. And since you are already logged in, there would not be any password prompted for, you would be running as the calling user, whether root or your regular user account.

Thanks for the info, aschiebe! Do you think the issues I'm having with the desktop environment is a video card driver problem? That would be interesting -- I'd love some pointers on how to troubleshoot that further. Searching Nvidia's site from the link you provided, they recommend the 340.108 versi...

I think you have to disable lightdm from starting up at boot time: % sudo rc-update del lightdm . This should give you a command line UI after the system starts. Then you would login as root or the user and manually start up lightdm. NOTE: I have not tried this myself as I'm still troubleshooting my...

I've been using GhostBSD as a VMware guest for the past year and have really enjoyed the work the developers are putting into this making a true FreeBSD-based desktop environment. This past week, I bit the bullet and did a bare-metal install of GhostBSD 20.02 on an older server (Xeon E5/32GB RAM/120...