Configuring HP-UX For Peripherals

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Configuring Interface Cards
Selecting Device Drivers for Your Interface Cards
you must perform the task in the following order:
Step 1. Shut down the system without changing the kernel (still swapping to the
original swap device).
Step 2. Add the EISA card and connect the new device.
Step 3. Boot the system, which is still swapping to the original swap device.
Step 4. Configure the kernel to swap to the new EISA device.
Step 5. Reboot the system.
Step 6. If the new swap device is connected to an EISA card, it will be configured
automatically by /sbin/eisa_config. If the new card creates a resource
conflict with EISA cards already configured, you must run eisa_config
manually to resolve the conflict. If the new swap device is connected to
an ISA card, you must run eisa_config manually to configure the new
swap device.
Graphics Card Configuration Guidelines
The following table shows the driver and device special files used by
graphics cards and subsystems.
During system bootup, ioinit creates the default device special files
shown in this table when it encounters the framebuf driver.
If for any reason these device files are insufficient for your purposes, you
can create new ones using mknod. As shown in
/usr/conf/master.d/core-hpux, the major number for framebuf (the
driver that provides the additional graphics capability) is 174. A
Table 3-7 Graphics Card Configuration Requirements
Architecture
Required
Drivers Default Device Special Files
Series 700 all
models Series 800
Models 8 x 9
graph3
a
/dev/crt /dev/crt0
/dev/crt1 /dev/crt2
/dev/crt3 /dev/ocrt
/dev/ocrt0 /dev/ocrt1
/dev/ocrt2 /dev/ocrt3
a. Specifying graph3 causes wsio, ite, and framebuf to be included
in the kernel.