Re: How do I suppress dpms mode setting messages on text console?
On 2012-03-04 18:16 +0100, Stephen Powell wrote:
> I am using Debian wheezy i386 with an Nvidia video card and the default
> nouveau driver. Everytime I switch back and forth between the X console
> (tty7) and a text console (such as tty1), tty1 gets spammed with messages
> like this:
>
> [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on vga encoder (output 0)
> [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Setting dpms mode 0 on vga encoder (output 0)
> [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Output VGA-1 is running on CRTC 0 using output A
>
> I assume that mode 3 is graphics mode (X server) and mode 0 is text mode
> (frame buffer simulated text console).
There is no text mode with nouveau.
> I consider these messages to be noise messages and I wish to suppress them.
> I don't mind if they are written to the kernel log, but I don't ever want to
> see them written to the console itself (except maybe during boot).
Add "quiet" to the kernel command line, this will suppress noise from
other drivers as well.
Sven
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