On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:00:58 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:41:04 -0500, Borden Rhodes wrote: > > > This is a question which nags at me whenever I try to figure out why > > something doesn't work in X. dmesg timestamps entries so when I'm going > > through trying to figure out why something crashed or didn't work like I > > naively expected it to, I can focus on the log entries around the time > > the event occurred. Ideally, I'd prefer these entries to be stamped with > > Gregorian dates and times instead of seconds since boot but that's > > another topic. > > > > Xorg.log (~/.xsession-errors, too, for that matter) doesn't timestamp > > entries. Therefore, when X crashes because I tried to use RandR or my > > video doesn't work properly, I get all of this fascinating information > > about how cleverly X figured out my screen resolution and refresh rates, > > but I don't know when they were added to Xorg.log so I don't know > > whether they are relevant to my investigation. > > I thought "Xorg.0.log" entries were only written at start-up :-? This is not correct - when X crashes, there are often crash-related error messages in the log. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
