On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 12:39:07 -0500 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 04 February 2007 08:51:44 am Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > On Sunday 4 February 2007 13:45, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > I was under the impression that it is necessary to install Nvidia > > > drivers. Is this correct? > > > > If the link is not in place, nvidia-drivers will not build. > > > > > And what should be done with the System.map file? Copy it to /boot > > > under which name? (I mean, when booting with a particular kernel, > > > how does the kernel know the path to the correct System.map?) > > > > There used to be a good system.map explanation here: > > > > http://dirac.org/linux/system.map/ > > > > however, it seems to have some problem at the moment. The google > > cached copy works (just do a search for linux system.map, it's the > > first hit). > > > > Sorry, cannot comment on whether the symlink should or should not be > > created, and it's been a lot since I built my last LFS. I have > > almost always used it, and never had any problem. IIRC the > > handbook's advice is to create the link. But, as always, YMMV. > > The server ar dirac.org need a kick, I emailed the admin there. As > for the symlink with LFS... LFS is a totally different animal than > most distributions. For us, the link is required in order to emerge > anything that touches the kernel sources. > I stopped copying System.map very often and it doesn't seem very useful.. I think copying it to /boot is mostly for recovery purposes, like .config being copied into /boot. that way you can rebuild the kernel if you need to. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
