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Board CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
Re: Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 11.04 Mining Guide / HOWTO
by
dmiii
on 18/06/2011, 22:50:51 UTC
At the moment I'm configuring system according to guide for SDK 2.4 on fresh Ubuntu Server 11.04.
Few notes:

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29. cd ~
throws me to root home folder, had to return to sudoer user home

- Also had problems installing fglrx
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root@miner1:/home/plangus# aptitude install fglrx vim openssh-server g++ libboost-all-dev subversion git-core python-numpy
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fglrx fglrx-amdcccle{a}
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 35 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/28.0 MB of archives. After unpacking 79.9 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Selecting previously deselected package fglrx.
(Reading database ... 64190 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking fglrx (from .../fglrx_2%3a8.850-0ubuntu1~xup2~natty_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package fglrx-amdcccle.
Unpacking fglrx-amdcccle (from .../fglrx-amdcccle_2%3a8.850-0ubuntu1~xup2~natty_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up fglrx (2:8.850-0ubuntu1~xup2~natty) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL.conf (gl_conf) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: error: unable to make /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/fglrx_drv: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing fglrx (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fglrx-amdcccle:
 fglrx-amdcccle depends on fglrx; however:
  Package fglrx is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing fglrx-amdcccle (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 fglrx
 fglrx-amdcccle
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up fglrx (2:8.850-0ubuntu1~xup2~natty) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL.conf (gl_conf) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: error: unable to make /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/fglrx_drv: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing fglrx (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fglrx-amdcccle:
 fglrx-amdcccle depends on fglrx; however:
  Package fglrx is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing fglrx-amdcccle (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 fglrx
 fglrx-amdcccle
Solved it by creating folder /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers
Maybe it will be useful for anybody else...