Fresh Installation Of FreeBSD 11.2--Mate Not Working Properly

[B J]

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> 1)
> Perhaps you should put kern.vty=vt in /boot/loader.conf and reboot.
> Do you still get the error with startx ?
>
> 2)
> Put the following in ~/.xinitrc before running startx :
>
> exec mate-session

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I did that and there was no difference in what Mate did.

Since my machine is over 10 years old, I wonder if the current version
of Mate is incompatible with it?

BMJ