Hi, > The screen becomes black when fb sould be turned on. This is similar (but > not same) behaviour after applying a patch of Robert Swindell about correct > PCI BAR detection. > > The screen is black, the boot does not complete (cannot remotely log-in), > caps-lock does not work, power-off or ctrl-alt-canc neither.
I wonder if it's crashing with the screen off? Are you able to build a kernel with: options DDB_ONPANIC=1 options DDB_COMMANDONENTER="trace;reboot" ? We might then be able to catch the crash details on the next boot. Regards, Julian -- Red Hat Czech, s.r.o. Brno