[solved] DRM Log Spam

duaner · 2021-02-20 05:36:48

I've recently installed arch on my fx505dy laptop. Everything works, but I've been getting these messages in the system journal about every 15 seconds:

Feb 19 23:25:54 duane-laptop kernel: [drm] PCIE GART of 256M enabled (table at 0x000000F400000000).
Feb 19 23:25:54 duane-laptop kernel: [drm] UVD and UVD ENC initialized successfully.
Feb 19 23:25:54 duane-laptop kernel: [drm] VCE initialized successfully.

They don't appear to be causing any problems apart from filling up the log, but I'm curious why they keep reinitializing constantly. Can anyone give me some information?

Last edited by duaner (2021-02-21 02:50:25)

seth · 2021-02-20 07:54:15

Do you constantly poll the outputs eg. in conky? (like "xrandr -q" and does that trigger the message?)

duaner · 2021-02-21 02:49:54

seth wrote:

Do you constantly poll the outputs eg. in conky? (like "xrandr -q" and does that trigger the message?)

Thanks. That put me on the right track.

It turned out to be the status line script I was using in tmux, which called the sensors program. For some reason, running sensors on this machine reinitializes the PCIE GART. So, I'm just reading the temperature from /sys now.

seth · 2021-02-21 07:21:37

You can pass the būs you're interested in to "sensors" to avaoid reading the GPU ones (which I assume will trigger re-init ?)

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#1 2021-02-20 05:36:48

[solved] DRM Log Spam

#2 2021-02-20 07:54:15

Re: [solved] DRM Log Spam

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Re: [solved] DRM Log Spam

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Re: [solved] DRM Log Spam

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