HP xw8400 Workstation Hardware Setup Manual page 36

3 Setting Up Video Hardware
perform the update are included with the DKU version associated with the release of your
Effects or Editing application.
The firmware on your DVI-Ramp must correspond to the certified version required by your
Effects or Editing application version. Each firmware in itself is associated to a hardware
version. If the firmware on your DVI-Ramp does not match its hardware version listed in the
table below, you must update the firmware to the certified version.
Effects or Editing Product Version Hardware Version
2008 SP1 with
The DVI-Ramp firmware update utilities required to check your firmware version and perform
the update are included with the DKU version associated with the release of your Effects or
Editing application. The following procedure describes how to verify the firmware version of
the DVI-Ramp.
To check if a DVI-Ramp firmware update is needed:
With the DVI-Ramp connected to your workstation and powered up, log in as root and
open a terminal.
W :
If your DVI-Ramp unit is connected to the HP workstation using a USB-to-Serial adapter,
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you must remove the adapter from the USB port, and connect the serial cable of the DVI-Ramp to
the serial port of the workstation. This does not apply to DVI-Ramp
Insert the DKU CD in the CD-ROM drive.
1.
Mount the CD-ROM by typing:
2.
mount /mnt/cdrom
N :
If your workstation has multiple CD-ROM drives, the drive containing the DKU CD may
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not be mapped as /mnt/cdrom. You can use any mapped CD-ROM drive for this procedure by
using the appropriate mount point for the CD-ROM drive in your workstation in these steps.
Go to the DVI_firmwareUpdate directory by typing:
3.
cd /mnt/cdrom/Utils/DVI_firmwareUpdate
Run the info command to scan the DVI-Ramp's current firmware. Type:
4.
./info
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DVI-Ramp 3.20
DVI-Ramp 4.20
2
DVI-Ramp 6.00
Certified Firmware Version
3.70
4.71
6.0506
6.0507
6.0508
2
units.