On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 12:12:48AM +0100, Mattieu Baptiste wrote: > > You can imagine that if I had the oportunity to do something on the console, > I would have already done that.
You'd be surprised. > The point is the screen goes black and the only solution I have is to reboot > the machine. oga@ suggested me to ask if other people with a proper serial > console can reproduce the problem. You failed to mention this in your first post. > That is the reason I ask misc. How up to date is your source tree? You said you've had this problem for a few days. Have you updated since a few days ago? There have been several fixes for radeons. Did you try a kernel with drm and radeondrm disabled to see if it makes any difference? Did you try backing out any source to an earlier version to narrow down what change could have broke this? Does dropping kqemu change anything? > > You can try `boot reboot`, or `boot dump`, either might give you > > information, but its not guarenteed. > > Thanks for the suggestion Peter but it doesn't change anything. The machine > has no reaction. Well, you should notice the hard drive light go solid with a 'boot dump'. That is if you have enough space. It will take a while as you have quite a bit of memory. Besides the light, the machine will appear to be doing nothing. I would suggest hitting enter before typing 'boot dump' incase there is any garbage input on the console. You're also typing blind. Don't assume that you're in DDB or that DDB is behaving nicely.
