On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 13:19 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I've just been reading /var/log/messages > on the laptop I put Fedora-8 on yesterday. > (Never got PXEboot to work - whatever I did, > it said there was a conflict between the F-8 ISO > and "base data", whatever that is. > In the end I just installed the KDE Live CD, > and ran "yum groupinstall" on the package groups I like - > as listed by "yum grouplist".) > > But /var/log/messages is full of such strange things. > I feel there should be a Fedora doctor one could sent it to, > and she will tell you how to cure all your ills. > > Here are a few lines: > -------------------------------------- > Jan 19 11:51:49 mary acpid: client connected from 2400[68:68] > Jan 19 11:51:53 mary acpid: client connected from 2555[0:0] > Jan 19 11:51:55 mary kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 > Jan 19 11:51:55 mary kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor > 0 > Jan 19 11:53:57 mary pulseaudio[2701]: pid.c: Daemon already running. > Jan 19 11:53:57 mary pulseaudio[2701]: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. > Jan 19 11:54:11 mary gconfd (tim-2782): starting (version 2.20.1), pid 2782 > user 'tim' > -------------------------------------- > > acpid - who is this client, and what does she want? ---- hardware integration ---- > > drm - I thought that was something to do with stealing DVDs? ---- ? ---- > pulseaudio - isn't that the think Karl is worrying about? > What is it, anyway? > Can I live without it? ---- it is the future of audio daemons - so say the packagers. Seems to work rather well actually. I think Karl was singularly focused on problems between pulseaudio and skype which probably has yet to catch up and not a Fedora package ---- > gconfd - do I really need this? > gconf seems to take up acres of space. ---- gnome stuff...probably need to keep it or it gets recreated ---- > Do I really need it? > I always assumed it was something to do with Gnome? ---- yes Craig
