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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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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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