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

[Chris]

On Thu, 2018-09-06 at 12:21 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 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.
> 
AFAICT my rsyslog.conf it's the default. I don't know if uncommenting
these lines would help or not:

### Debugging ###
# $DebugFile /var/log/rsyslog-debug
# $DebugLevel 2

# syslog.* /var/log/syslog.debug;RSYSLOG_DebugFormat
# $DebugFile /var/log/syslog.debug
# $DebugLevel 2


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Chris
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