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On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:43:22PM -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: |
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> On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 12:39:07 -0500 |
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> Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 04 February 2007 08:51:44 am Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> > > On Sunday 4 February 2007 13:45, Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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> > > > I was under the impression that it is necessary to install Nvidia |
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> > > > drivers. Is this correct? |
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> > > |
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> > > If the link is not in place, nvidia-drivers will not build. |
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> > > |
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> > > > And what should be done with the System.map file? Copy it to /boot |
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> > > > under which name? (I mean, when booting with a particular kernel, |
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> > > > how does the kernel know the path to the correct System.map?) |
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> > > |
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> > > There used to be a good system.map explanation here: |
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> > > |
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> > > http://dirac.org/linux/system.map/ |
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> > > |
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> > > however, it seems to have some problem at the moment. The google |
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> > > cached copy works (just do a search for linux system.map, it's the |
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> > > first hit). |
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> > > |
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> > > Sorry, cannot comment on whether the symlink should or should not be |
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> > > created, and it's been a lot since I built my last LFS. I have |
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> > > almost always used it, and never had any problem. IIRC the |
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> > > handbook's advice is to create the link. But, as always, YMMV. |
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> > |
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> > The server ar dirac.org need a kick, I emailed the admin there. As |
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> > for the symlink with LFS... LFS is a totally different animal than |
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> > most distributions. For us, the link is required in order to emerge |
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> > anything that touches the kernel sources. |
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> > |
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> I stopped copying System.map very often and it doesn't seem very |
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> useful.. I think copying it to /boot is mostly for recovery purposes, |
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> like .config being copied into /boot. that way you can rebuild the |
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> kernel if you need to. |
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AFAIK about System.map is it is not for recovery, but for |
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debugging. If kernel crashes, it tries get one to tell where it crashed, |
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give you backtrace and like that. It's easier to find the bug with it, |
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so unless you do not have a kernel that will ever crash, or you do not |
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want to send bug reports, you do not need one. |
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BOFH Excuse #452: |
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Somebody ran the operating system through a spelling checker. |
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Michal 'vorner' Vaner |
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