Minor issues with etch on Supermicro H8QCE motherboard and a question
The first minor issue is that to establish networking with my new system (quad-socket dual-opteron amd64 etch on Supermicro H8QCE motherboard), i.e. to connect through the router, command
# dhclient
is needed. Where to set automatic networking on boot?
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The second minor issue is that having discovered that gnome is installed (never used, so I forgot) I tried it
$ startx
OK
then
$gnome-session
SESSION_MANAGER=local/deb64:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4731
Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/francesc/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms: Failed to open file '/home/francesco/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms': No such file or directory
**Message: Not starting remote desktop server
Does it simply mean that another window manager than metacity was selected? Gnome is opened correctly.
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The anticipated question is: I have Disabled the parallel port on BIOS. In order to save resources, is it safe to disable serial ports?
The situation as I received the board was
Super IO Configuration
Serial Port1 Address 3F8/IRQ3
Serial Port2 Address 2F8/IRQ3
Serial Port 2 Mode Normal
I disabled both ports, whereby the third line above disappeared. The, I met the issue above and I thought it was related to the "Disable" operation. Therefore, I activated both ports again. For port1 3F8/IRQ3 was not available, and The present setting is:
Serial Port1 Address 3F8/IRQ4
Serial Port 2 Address 2F8/IRQ3
Parallel Port Mode Disabled
Physically there is only one COM port, indicated COM1
Thanks
francesco pietra
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