Good morning! This is a question which nags at me whenever I try to figure out why something doesn't work in X. dmesg timestamps entries so when I'm going through trying to figure out why something crashed or didn't work like I naively expected it to, I can focus on the log entries around the time the event occurred. Ideally, I'd prefer these entries to be stamped with Gregorian dates and times instead of seconds since boot but that's another topic.
Xorg.log (~/.xsession-errors, too, for that matter) doesn't timestamp entries. Therefore, when X crashes because I tried to use RandR or my video doesn't work properly, I get all of this fascinating information about how cleverly X figured out my screen resolution and refresh rates, but I don't know when they were added to Xorg.log so I don't know whether they are relevant to my investigation. Since, according to Google, I'm the first to ask this question, I'm guessing I'm misunderstanding the purpose of Xorg.log and that time stamps are counterproductive. Could someone please explain why this is the way that it is? With thanks, Borden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
