Minor issues with etch on Supermicro H8QCE motherboard and a question

2008-04-16 Thread Francesco Pietra
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?


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.
___

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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Re: Minor issues with etch on Supermicro H8QCE motherboard and a question

2008-04-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:50:37AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote:
 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?

You should be able to configure that in /etc/network/interfaces

Something like:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

 
 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

Gnome session can only run inside X, so you would have to put

t in .xsession or something like that.

For example a .xsession file (in your home directory) could be:

-
#!/bin/sh

exec gnome-session
-

 Does it simply mean that another window manager than metacity was selected?  
 Gnome is opened correctly.
 ___
 
 The anticipated question is: I have Disabled the parallel port on BIOS. In 
 order to save resources, is it safe to disable serial ports?

If nothing connects to them, it is perfectly safe to disable them.

 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

Those are certainly the standard serial ports (3F8 is always IRQ4 and
2F8 is always IRQ3).

 Physically there is only one COM port, indicated COM1

I can't see any way disabling unused ports could affect things.  Lots of
laptops don't even have any in the first place so the software isn't
going to require serial or parallel ports to be present.  Of course it
isn't really likely that the resources are required for anything else so
enabled or disabled doesn't really matter.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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