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Check out the following link
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html

You may want the nvidia drivers.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-4365.html

Check back if your still stumped.

RW

On 2004-01-23 10:21:13 -0500 Claude Martin 
<claude_martin_41@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, my name is Claude, and I'm new to FreeBSD. I've installed it on a 
> hard 
> drive by itself, and I get it to boot. The install seemed to have 
> completed 
> without a glitch.
> 
> My problem is that I expected the booting process to finish in the 
> graphical 
> user interface. Instead, it stops at a CLI prompt. Maybe I did 
> something 
> wrong. I tried re-configuring by booting off the CD, and I selected 
> KDE as my 
> user interface. But something in the configuration goes wrong, and it 
> tells 
> me to select a simpler interface. I've tried a couple of the others, 
> with the 
> same result.
> 
> I did not modify anything in the kernel. Is that the problem? My 
> computer has 
> a Soho P4X400 Dragon Lite MB, an Intel Celeron 2.2 GHz processor, 256 
> MB of 
> DDR400 memory, an Nvidia GeForce2 video card, and otherwise runs 
> Win2000 and 
> WinXP Pro flawlessly.
> 
> I've read all sorts of help files, but am still pretty lost. Can you 
> advise 
> me as to how to proceed from here? Is there a forum I can post this 
> to?
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> Claude
> 
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