Solved Yet another black screen in Gnome Environment

Hi,
I am relatively new to BSD and I need your help here. I have installed FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p9 (64bit) on a Dell Latititude E6410. Since this model carries a Nvidia 3100M graphics card I've compiled (with the kernel source present) and installed the legacy Nvidia driver 340.107_104. No errors reported. The driver is requested to be loaded during boot in the loader.conf file. If you need more hardware information please let me know. After having followed the guide and installed and configured the gnome3 package I experience a black screen completing the boot sequence (the Nvidia logo shows briefly just before turning black). I can exit (ctrl+alt+F2) to the shell and login, but still cannot start the gnome-session.

I have in vain searched for similar cases but have not found a solution to the problem. Fun fact: Using the slim desktop manager instead brings me to a login screen, I can however still not start Gnome. However, I can start Xfce from Slim and launch X-Windows from the command line. My Xorg config file is generated by nvidia-xconfig. Please follow the links below to the log files generated from a normal boot sequence with GDM enabled (Slim disabled) and configuration file. If you need more data I will try to provide them.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf: https://pastebin.com/vrZ2XGZy
/var/log/Xorg.0.log: https://pastebin.com/TNA20gzW
/var/log/messages: <link removed>

Any help is much appreciated.
/W

PS: I've tried to uncommet "# WaylandEnable=false" in /usr/local/etc/gdm/custom.conf to force the login screen gdm to use Xorg to no avail.
 
This case can be closed - I've found the solution:

Ran pkg-static upgrade -f which upgraded the Nvidia driver from 340.107_104_1 to 340.107_104_4, and now I have my gnome desktop. You have no idea how much time I've spent on this. Super satisfying to have a solution. Sorry for disturbing you.
 
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