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

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2018-09-06 1:53 p.m., Chris wrote:
> 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

Yeah, sorry, different meaning of "should" — the code definitely always
has printed these by default, it just arguably shouldn't.

Anyway, Adam is right that the client shouldn't use this functionality
in the first place.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer               |               http://www.amd.com
Libre software enthusiast             |             Mesa and X developer

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