system freezes when loading amdgpu

[Pierre DAVID]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 08:37:19PM +0100, Phil Norman wrote:
>Hi.
>
>Did you try setting 'hw.syscons.disable=1' in /boot/loader.conf?
>
>I faced a similar-sounding issue which was resolved by that (see thread
>http://freebsd.1045724.x6.nabble.com/System-lockup-on-kldload-amdgpu-td6311644.html
>).

Thanks for your message. I remember this thread, I attempted to 
set this loader parameter when this thread appeared, and it didn't 
change anything (my system is a pre-UEFI one). I just tried now to    
be sure: same symptoms persist. I'm still stuck with drm-kmod not 
working.

Pierre