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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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> If the link is not in place, nvidia-drivers will not build. |
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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, how |
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> > does the kernel know the path to the correct System.map?) |
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> There used to be a good system.map explanation here: |
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> http://dirac.org/linux/system.map/ |
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> however, it seems to have some problem at the moment. The google cached |
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> copy works (just do a search for linux system.map, it's the first hit). |
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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 almost |
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> always used it, and never had any problem. IIRC the handbook's advice is |
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> to create the link. But, as always, YMMV. |
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The server ar dirac.org need a kick, I emailed the admin there. As for the |
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symlink with LFS... LFS is a totally different animal than most |
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distributions. For us, the link is required in order to emerge anything that |
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touches the kernel sources. |
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Jerry McBride |
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