When starting Evolution /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2309]: (II) modeset information is printed to syslog

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2018-09-05 9:16 p.m., Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-09-01 at 10:24 -0500, Chris wrote:
> 
>> When starting Evolution this is output to syslog and periodically after it's running:
>>
>> https://pastebin.com/zndBukUG
> 
> Evolution, or something it provokes, is asking the server for the list
> of available video modes. It's doing so with XRRGetScreenResources(),
> apparently, which prompts the X server to go re-check every available
> output to see if anything has changed. This is silly, it should be
> using XRRGetScreenResourcesCurrent() and relying on hotplug events to
> trigger re-polling. Now, maybe the X server shouldn't print the modes
> in the log when that happens, [...]

FWIW, it probably shouldn't indeed, at least not at the default log
verbosity.


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