dmesg garbage

Ankur Sinha sanjay.ankur at gmail.com
Thu Sep 2 14:14:11 UTC 2010


hi,

I need to look at dmesg output for some work. However, my dmesg is
filled with garbage:

....
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40086409, nr=0x09, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40086482, nr=0x82, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40046483, nr=0x83, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0xc0306480, nr=0x80, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0xc0406481, nr=0x81, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40086482, nr=0x82, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40046483, nr=0x83, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0xc0406481, nr=0x81, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40086482, nr=0x82, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40046483, nr=0x83, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0xc0406481, nr=0x81, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0xc0306480, nr=0x80, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0xc0406481, nr=0x81, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0xc0306480, nr=0x80, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0xc0406481, nr=0x81, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40086409, nr=0x09, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40086482, nr=0x82, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40046483, nr=0x83, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0xc0306480, nr=0x80, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0xc0406481, nr=0x81, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40086409, nr=0x09, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40086482, nr=0x82, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40046483, nr=0x83, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0xc0306480, nr=0x80, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0xc0406481, nr=0x81, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40086409, nr=0x09, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40086482, nr=0x82, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40046483, nr=0x83, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0xc0306480, nr=0x80, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0xc0406481, nr=0x81, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40086409, nr=0x09, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40086482, nr=0x82, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40046483, nr=0x83, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0xc0306480, nr=0x80, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0xc0406481, nr=0x81, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40086409, nr=0x09, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40086482, nr=0x82, dev 0xe200, auth=1
[drm:drm_ioctl], pid=1735, cmd=0x40046483, nr=0x83, dev 0xe200, auth=1
.....
...
....

I checked up what pid 1735 is:
[root at 070905042 ~]# ps aux | grep 1735
root      1735  6.0  1.3 119464 34240 tty1     Ss+  Sep01
108:16 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -nr -verbose
-auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-q4z68C/database -nolisten tcp vt1

Can someone please tell me how to disable this logging so I can make use
of dmesg?

BTW, I've dont dmesg -c a lot of times and this garbage still turns
up :|
-- 
Thanks!
Regards,
Ankur 

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