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Making Software and Device-Specific Changes
Chapter 114
Making Software and Device-Specific Changes
System Configuration
For important information on configuring your system for your graphics
option (for example, creating a device file with mknod), refer to your
workstation and HP-UX documentation. If you are installing a
multiple-display system and you will be using the Common Desktop
Environment (CDE), you will need to refer to the Common Desktop
Environment User's Guide for important configuration information. If
you will be using HP VUE, see the HP Visual User Environment User's
Guide.
If you are adding a new graphics card or moving a current one to a new
slot location, you will need to reconfigure some HP-UX device files. Begin
by deleting the old device files for the old card location and create new
ones for the new slot location. Follow these steps in order for HP-UX to
recognize the new card location or graphics card:
1. Place the new card in the new slot location and boot to HP-UX. It will
not boot into CDE or VUE, but will allow you to login at the command
line level as root.
2. Delete the old graphics card files as the super user by typing
rm /dev/crt*
3. Create the new device files by typing
insf -ev
4. Type init 3 to finish booting to CDE or VUE.
Special Considerations
To make sure that your system has the most up-to-date core software, it
is recommended that the most recent release of the Workstation
Additional Core Enhancements (ACE) starting from December 1999 be
installed. The graphics bundles containing the fx
5
and fx
10
drivers must
also be installed; B6825A for HP-UX 10.20 ACE5 or B6268AA for HP-UX
11.X. In addition, if your applications are based on HP’s implementation
of OpenGL Runtime Libraries, it is highly recommended that you update
these Libraries from the June 200 (or later) Application Release from the
HP website.