Package: base Severity: minor I've recently installed an AGP ATI Radeon 100 graphics card to get advantage of an high resolution console. (I believe this is relevant as the problem was nonexistant while using the integrated Intel i810 video):
(lspci output: 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02) [...] 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] ) I used `aptitude install linux-firmware-nonfree` to fix some warnings printed at early boot, but this problem was preexisting. In fact, the problem manifested immediately after installing Sid via a tutorial found on a popular Italian fansite (install stable base system, edit sources.list, apt-get update/upgrade/install apt dpkg aptitude, aptitude dist-upgrade). At this moment, the system is fully upgraded as the packages available at 2013-3-15 13:00 GMT were. After booting, the login prompt appears on an apparently random virtual console (most often tty3). While this isn't clearly correct behavior, it does not impair usability on a standard setup as all consoles are equal (this might not apply if inittab is edited to use autologin, but I haven't tried this scenario or any display manager). -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
