I'm running Slackware 14.1 x86_64 with Openbox. I don't use any login display managers, I only run startx, and I noticed with xorg-server-1.14.3 when doing startx I'll see all these messages about Initializing the built-in extensions filling up the console as X starts. I've never seen this before as the normal behaviour to have this information spewed out into the console. It's my understanding this is what the /var/log/Xorg.0.log is for instead, where you can already see these messages, so there is no need in having this flood the console with redundant information and I'd greatly appreciate it if someone can tell me how I might fix this, or hopefully soon there will be a fix for this to keep the information in the log where it belongs. I really need the console for information but this constant flooding when starting X isn't helping me, so I hope this will be fixed soon. THANKS Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension Initializing built-in extension SHAPE Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension Initializing built-in extension XTEST Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS Initializing built-in extension SYNC Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA Initializing built-in extension XFIXES Initializing built-in extension RENDER Initializing built-in extension RANDR Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER Initializing built-in extension RECORD Initializing built-in extension DPMS Initializing built-in extension X-Resource Initializing built-in extension XVideo Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation Initializing built-in extension XFree86-VidModeExtension Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DGA Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DRI Initializing built-in extension DRI2
Seems to have been introduced by the change from xf86MsgVerb to ErrorF in http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=79d14d9fc3d92ba866864d3a5910a8c6c8e9b64f Since most people will have this output captured by their display manager and stored in a log file, few will have noticed a difference or see it on console.
Thanks Alan, I hope this will be fixed soon.
http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/23015/
commit 8468e24430988058b150dc1daef3aad6ba9fa698 Author: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com> Date: Thu Mar 27 11:48:39 2014 -0400 mi: Hush extension initialization (#75870)
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