Firmware upgrade using Linux tool, requires no hardware

[blargg]

Oh sorry, I missed that the incorrect file has one more digit in its size than it was expecting (e.g. 2MB instead of 256KB). So I see now, you've got the wrong flash chip configured. You have it set for a flash chip that's only 256K, while the firmware file you're using is 2MB (8 times the size). That 256K chip is probably some configuration storage or maybe HDCP-related chip it found in the monitor, unrelated to what you want to do.

[Phade]

Thanks alot my friend! You've saved me
Apparently I've selected the wrong BUS. Now everything worked perfectly and I'm on V2.

Thank you for your help.

[blargg]

Nice, glad to hear it finally worked. Hopefully this helps someone in the future too.

[Garrison31]

Id'like to thank you very much.
It worked perfectly for me.

I was using my desktop gaming PC.
I disconected my Ati GPU (R9 290X)
I pluged the XL2420Z on the intel's cor i5 VGA ouput and a second screen ont the intel's DVI output.
I installed the last available version of ubuntu.
For those who are not familiar with linux don't forget to install theses packages :
sudo apt-get install svn
sudo apt-get install i2c-tools subversion libpci-dev
Video output for the 2420Z was disabled (display menu in ubuntu) and screen was in standby mode.
I followed the blog's instruction : don't forget to download and use the proper firmware at this step : dd if=XL2420Z_V2_20131209_4D1F.BIN of=firmware.bin conv=notrunc . The firmware shall be in the /flashrom directory)
And that's it.

Again thank you very much

[jalalinator]

hey guys i finally did it lol i used an old laptop it worked first time so easy thanks to boeglin bishi and blurbusters you guys are awesome!

[xate]

Oh lord, after reading every single comment on this post I really want to try updating my firmware, to bad I'm not man enough to take a chance on bricking my 500$ monitor. Guess I'll just keep my monitor on V1 and hope that I'll meet a person familiar with linux in the near future or man a bit up.

[Falkentyne]

You won't brick it. go to page 3 or 5 and follow the instructions for the umbuntu flash boot disk.

[xate]

You won't brick it. go to page 3 or 5 and follow the instructions for the umbuntu flash boot disk.

I'll probably go for it after I call the place I bought it from to check if they can do it by any chance, a slim chance, but still a chance worth taking as I think if I do it myself I could have some warranty issues.

[Vox]

Hello, and thanks for the instructions. I've currently connected my XL2411Z this way:

Graphics card DVI output -> DVI to VGA adapter -> VGA cable -> XL2411Z VGA input

Following the steps here, I've been able to successfully complete all of them up to the last one, where the firmware writing occurs. Before proceeding, I thought I'd ask you to be sure if it's okay to do this, as I'm not using the recommended (?) pure VGA connections.

[Vivec]

Hello! Please help me! Trying to update the firmware on my benq xl2420z according to the method described in this forum on page 5 I get this problem:

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ubuntu@ubuntu:~/flashrom$ wget -O- http://boeglin.org/static/benq/0001-Add-programmer-f…SP-protocol.patch | patch -p1
--2014-12-25 20:26:45-- http://boeglin.org/static/benq/0001-Add-programmer-f…SP-protocol.patch
Resolving boeglin.org (boeglin.org)... 178.170.95.127, 2a00:c70:1:178:170:95:127:1
Connecting to boeglin.org (boeglin.org)|178.170.95.127|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 12625 (12K) [text/x-diff]
Saving to: ‘STDOUT’

100%[======================================>] 12,625 --.-K/s in 0.08s 

2014-12-25 20:26:45 (147 KB/s) - written to stdout [12625/12625]

patching file Makefile
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] 

I've tried proxy and different versions of Ubuntu. No results. When i've applied patch, i get this:

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 0123456789abcdef
00: 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 09 d1 2c 7f 45 54 00 00 ........??,?ET..
10: 0b 18 01 03 0e 35 1e 78 2e 9d e1 a6 54 54 9f 26 ?????5?x.???TT?&
20: 0d 50 54 a5 6b 80 d1 c0 45 7c 61 7c 81 80 81 bc ?PT?k???E|a|????
30: 95 3c 31 7c 01 01 02 3a 80 18 71 38 2d 40 58 2c ?<1|???:??q8-@X,
40: 45 00 13 2a 21 00 00 1e 00 00 00 ff 00 57 33 45 E.?*!..?.....W3E
50: 30 30 32 39 36 53 4c 30 0a 20 00 00 00 fd 00 18 00296SL0? ...?.?
60: 78 0f 87 15 00 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 fc x???.? ...?
70: 00 42 65 6e 51 20 58 4c 32 34 32 30 5a 0a 00 b0 .BenQ XL2420Z?.?
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/flashrom$ sudo ./flashrom -p mstarddc_spi ev=/dev/i2c-1:49
flashrom v0.9.7-r1860 on Linux 3.13.0-32-generic (i686)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

Error: Unknown programmer "mstarddc_spi ev=/dev/i2c-1:49". Valid choices are:
internal, dummy, nic3com, nicrealtek, gfxnvidia, drkaiser, satasii, atavia,
it8212, serprog, buspirate_spi, rayer_spi, pony_spi, nicintel, nicintel_spi,
nicintel_eeprom, ogp_spi, satamv, linux_spi.
Please run "flashrom --help" for usage info 

P.S. Sorry for my english. Thanks in advance.