Radeon Caicos issue

[Jan Kokemüller]

Hi!

> When I load the
> firmware (via kldstat radeonkms) from the console after boot, the screen
> blinks and goes away like it does when loading from loader.conf, but the
> system is still running, so I'm able to collect some stats via ssh.

Can you try "kern.vty=vt" in your /boot/loader.conf? This enables the 
new console subsystem which should play nice with the KMS drivers :)

More information about vt:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons