HP-UX 11i v2 Installation and Update Guide, June 2007

Known Problems and Troubleshooting
Installing Fire GL-UX Graphics Cards
Appendix A146
Installing Fire GL-UX Graphics Cards
Unlike graphics patches on HP-UX 11i v1, the kernel graphics patch
PHKL_34349 for HP-UX 11i v2 will not automatically configure the gvid
graphics driver into the kernel if a Fire GL-UX graphics card is detected.
If you have newly installed a Fire GL-UX graphics card, make sure that
the gvid graphics driver is configured into your kernel. This only needs
to be done once per system. First, to determine if the gvid driver is
already within your kernel, use the kcmodule command as shown here:
# kcmodule gvid
If your kernel is configured correctly, the output of kcmodule should
resemble the following:
Module State Cause
gvid static best
If the state shown for gvid is anything other than “static”, the gvid
driver must be configured into your kernel before you can use your Fire
GL-UX graphics card. To configure gvid into your kernel, execute the
following command as superuser:
# kcmodule gvid=static
This will build a new kernel containing the gvid driver. You now need to
reboot your system to run this new kernel.