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