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Old 22nd July 2016
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Linux tends to have better driver support, so if it's running in Linux, it doesn't mean it will run in FreeBSD, (especially with newer Intel cards, but that's another story). The 346 or newer driver should work though.

I've had similar situations, where it seems to see the card, the right driver is installed, but X won't start. In my case, I've always had access to other video cards that work, (and these cards would work with a different motherboard), so I've never done a thorough investigation.

You might try installing the nvidia-config package (or nvidia-settings--sorry, not at a FreeBSD machine right now), and then running nvidia-xconfig (I think--you can look at pkg-plist to see what it installs) and see if you have any luck with the auto generated file, but in my case mentioned above, that didn't help.
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