Worthless debug messages

[Kevin Oberman]

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 5:02 PM, B Z <bowlapplefork at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ever since I upgraded to the (nonworking) KMS extension for Xorg, I've
> been getting these messages repeating endlessly in my kernel log.  I've
> given up on trying to get 3D graphics back into a workable state, but is
> there some boot-time option or sysctl setting that can be used to disable
> these messages without making Xorg totally unusable?
>
> [2665] [drm:KMS:pid0:intel_crt_detect] CRT not detected via hotplug
> [2665] [drm:KMS:pid0:output_poll_execute] [CONNECTOR:11:VGA-1] status
> updated from 2 to 2
> [2665] [drm:KMS:pid0:output_poll_execute] [CONNECTOR:13:SVIDEO-1] status
> updated from 2 to 2
> [2674] [drm:KMS:pid1774:intel_crtc_cursor_set]
> [2674] [drm:KMS:pid1774:intel_crtc_cursor_set] cursor off
> [2675] [drm:KMS:pid0:intel_crt_detect] CRT not detected via hotplug
> [2675] [drm:KMS:pid0:output_poll_execute] [CONNECTOR:11:VGA-1] status
> updated from 2 to 2
> [2675] [drm:KMS:pid0:output_poll_execute] [CONNECTOR:13:SVIDEO-1] status
> updated from 2 to 2
> [2685] [drm:KMS:pid0:intel_crt_detect] CRT not detected via hotplug
> [2685] [drm:KMS:pid0:output_poll_execute] [CONNECTOR:11:VGA-1] status
> updated from 2 to 2
> [2685] [drm:KMS:pid0:output_poll_execute] [CONNECTOR:13:SVIDEO-1] status
> updated from 2 to 2
> [2695] [drm:KMS:pid0:intel_crt_detect] CRT not detected via hotplug
> [2695] [drm:KMS:pid0:output_poll_execute] [CONNECTOR:11:VGA-1] status
> updated from 2 to 2
> [2695] [drm:KMS:pid0:output_poll_execute] [CONNECTOR:13:SVIDEO-1] status
> updated from 2 to 2
> [2705] [drm:KMS:pid0:intel_crt_detect] CRT not detected via hotplug
> [2705] [drm:KMS:pid0:output_poll_execute] [CONNECTOR:11:VGA-1] status
> updated from 2 to 2
> [2705] [drm:KMS:pid0:output_poll_execute] [CONNECTOR:13:SVIDEO-1] status
> updated from 2 to 2
> [2715] [drm:KMS:pid0:intel_crt_detect] CRT not detected via hotplug
> [2715] [drm:KMS:pid0:output_poll_execute] [CONNECTOR:11:VGA-1] status
> updated from 2 to 2
> [2715] [drm:KMS:pid0:output_poll_execute] [CONNECTOR:13:SVIDEO-1] status
> updated from 2 to 2
> [2725] [drm:KMS:pid0:intel_crt_detect] CRT not detected via hotplug
> [2725] [drm:KMS:pid0:output_poll_execute] [CONNECTOR:11:VGA-1] status
> updated from 2 to 2
> [2725] [drm:KMS:pid0:output_poll_execute] [CONNECTOR:13:SVIDEO-1] status
> updated from 2 to 2
>

Yes, there is, but most of the drm errors were already silenced. What
version are you running? Also, if the KMS code is not working for you, why
are you using it?

In any case, most KMS errors can be silenced with hw.dri.debug=0. I can't
confirm that these are, though, as I have never goten them.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com