On 2015-03-19, Lars <li...@srdn.de> wrote:
> I did something stupid while configuring pf and locked myself out of my 
> server using ssh.
> So I connected an older lcd-screen and a usb keyboard to my server to 
> get console access. Unfortunately the screen did no wake up and pressing 
> keys on the keyboards didn't help. I waited around 1 minute but the 
> screen didn't show anything. I rebooted the system by pressing the 
> powerbutton to get a working screen. I don't think this is supposed to 
> be right.

Is the dmesg below from a boot with the monitor connected or not?
Can you show the equivalent of these lines from the other type? Look in
/var/log/messages* for old boot messages.

> root on sd0a (260fbbdcd0c7be61.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b
> drm: initializing kernel modesetting (RS880 0x1002:0x9712 
> 0x103C:0x1609).
> radeondrm0: VRAM: 32M 0x00000000C0000000 - 0x00000000C1FFFFFF (32M used)
> radeondrm0: GTT: 512M 0x00000000A0000000 - 0x00000000BFFFFFFF
> drm: PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x00000000C0040000).
> radeondrm0: 1680x1050

I'm wondering if drm picked a resolution during boot that doesn't work
with your monitor. If this is the cause, you could disable radeondrm
with config(8)..

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