About info in Xorg.0.log

[Aaron Plattner]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 11:20:03AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 05:31:57PM +0200, Peo Nilsson wrote:
> > Dear list.
> > 
> > I find this in my Xorg.0.log file:
> > 
> > ...<snap>
> > (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select"
> > (**) Option "BaudRate" "1200"
> > (**) Option "StopBits" "2"
> > (**) Option "DataBits" "8"
> > (**) Option "Parity" "None"
> > (**) Option "Vmin" "1"
> > (**) Option "Vtime" "0"
> > (**) Option "FlowControl" "None"
> > (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select"
> > <snap>...
> > 
> > Is it the DDC? If so, why does it say (**) ?
> > I haven't put anything about that in xorg.conf.
> 
> I would guess those to be default values for the driver, which you could
> override in xorg.conf if you wished, in which case you'd probably want
> to hit nVidia's website for documentation.

These messages aren't coming from the NVIDIA driver (note the lack of an
"NVIDIA(0):" prefix).  More likely, they're from xf86SetSerial in the tty
handling code.  From my reading of the code, those messages should only get
printed if the options actually appear in your xorg.conf.  You might want
to check the log file to make sure it's reading the config you expect (and
not, say, /root/xorg.conf).

--
Aaron