Monitor info keeps getting posted to syslog Ubuntu 18.04

[Chris]

On Wed, 2018-08-29 at 19:29 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 at 18:39, Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Since my upgrade last week from 16.04 to 18.04 this keeps getting
> > written to my syslog. Any way to suppress this output or send it to
> > another log file.
> 
> What connection are you using? VGA, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort, etc.?
> 
> When I went from 10.04 to 12.04, one of my screens stopped working,
> after years of successful operation. I had two VGA cables, in DVI ->
> VGA convertors. One led to a VGA connector, and that was fine. The
> other led to separate BNC connectors for R/G/B/sync. This no longer
> worked on 12.04 and I had to switch to dual VGA-to-VGA cables.
> 
> I am wondering if something similar is happening to you...
> 
VGA
lshw

*-display:0
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci at 0000:00:02.0
             version: 03
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
             configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
             resources: irq:16 memory:f7c00000-f7ffffff
memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:ecb8(size=8) memory:c0000-dffff

hwinfo

32: None 00.0: 10000 Monitor
  [Created at monitor.125]
  Unique ID: rdCR.RzCuhgCRJC6
  Parent ID: _Znp.SFJq_fZRtDB
  Hardware Class: monitor
  Model: "Acer P221W"
  Vendor: ACR 
  Device: eisa 0x0016 "Acer P221W"
  Serial ID: "LBJ0D0088510"
  Resolution: 720x400 at 70Hz
  Resolution: 640x480 at 60Hz
  Resolution: 640x480 at 67Hz
  Resolution: 640x480 at 72Hz
  Resolution: 640x480 at 75Hz
  Resolution: 800x600 at 56Hz
  Resolution: 800x600 at 60Hz
  Resolution: 800x600 at 72Hz
  Resolution: 800x600 at 75Hz
  Resolution: 832x624 at 75Hz
  Resolution: 1024x768 at 60Hz
  Resolution: 1024x768 at 70Hz
  Resolution: 1024x768 at 75Hz
  Resolution: 1280x1024 at 75Hz
  Resolution: 1152x864 at 75Hz
  Resolution: 1280x1024 at 60Hz
  Resolution: 1680x1050 at 60Hz
  Size: 474x296 mm
  Year of Manufacture: 2008
  Week of Manufacture: 16
  Detailed Timings #0:
     Resolution: 1680x1050
     Horizontal: 1680 1728 1760 1840 (+48 +80 +160) -hsync
       Vertical: 1050 1053 1059 1080 (+3 +9 +30) -vsync
    Frequencies: 119.00 MHz, 64.67 kHz, 59.88 Hz
  Driver Info #0:
    Max. Resolution: 1680x1050
    Vert. Sync Range: 56-75 Hz
    Hor. Sync Range: 31-83 kHz
    Bandwidth: 119 MHz
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #22 (VGA compatible controller)

-- 
Chris
KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C
31.11972; -97.90167 (Elev. 1092 ft)
12:40:51 up 1 day, 20:55, 1 user, load average: 0.75, 0.64, 0.38
Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, kernel 4.15.0-33-generic
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 195 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20180829/b2b714be/attachment.sig>