Radeon Caicos issue

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2014, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

> Hi, all. I'd like to install FreeBSD on my work desktop, but I'm seeming to
> have no luck with the graphics. When I load the firmware from
> /boot/loader.conf the system seems to crash - the screen blinks out and the
> monitors say they're getting no signal, and that's it. 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.

Why are you manually loading the firmware at all?