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From: Jan Pech on 15 Feb 2010 03:17 On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 17:11 +0000, General Schvantzkoph wrote: > I have a KVM XP VM running on Fedora 12. I'm trying to run SignalTap on > the VM however I can't get the VM to see the USB cable. Virt-manager sees > the cable and I've attached it to the VM but XP doesn't see it. Has > anyone been able to attach an Altera cable to a KVM VM? > > p.s. the reason that I'm trying to do this with a VM is that Quartus > doesn't run on Fedora, just CentOS. Also I've found that the Altera cable > driver is pretty much unusable on CentOS so putting a native CentOS > partition on machine won't solve the problem. I don't have a native > Windows partition on my laptop so that's not an option either. Quartus II 9.1sp1 runs under my x86_64 Fedora fine. It was just necessary to do some small hacking first. 1. Edit the <altera_install_dir>/quartus/adm/qenv.csh file to get rid of the stupid compatibility mode causing Quartus IDE to freeze. I added following lines below simlar section related to CentOS: if ( "$REDHAT_VERSION" =~ *Fedora* ) then setenv REDHAT_VERSION 5.0rhel endif 2. Run the Quartus II IDE as well as other tools in 64 bit mode under x86_64 Fedora. Otherwise the tools do not start complaining about tcl/tk problems. quartus --64bit Second option is to use brand new native Linux GUI based on QT (qgui). It is in beta but it looks fine. I hope this helps you to get rid of the VM. I use Quartus 9.1 this way since SP1 was released. Jan
From: General Schvantzkoph on 15 Feb 2010 09:49 On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:22:13 +0100, Jan Pech wrote: > On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 17:11 +0000, General Schvantzkoph wrote: >> I have a KVM XP VM running on Fedora 12. I'm trying to run SignalTap on >> the VM however I can't get the VM to see the USB cable. Virt-manager >> sees the cable and I've attached it to the VM but XP doesn't see it. >> Has anyone been able to attach an Altera cable to a KVM VM? >> >> p.s. the reason that I'm trying to do this with a VM is that Quartus >> doesn't run on Fedora, just CentOS. Also I've found that the Altera >> cable driver is pretty much unusable on CentOS so putting a native >> CentOS partition on machine won't solve the problem. I don't have a >> native Windows partition on my laptop so that's not an option either. > > > BTW, what is wrong with the JTAG cable driver on CentOS? I use Altera > tools on both Fedora and CentOS and I had no problems at all. At least > not since the time I managed to setup udev properly and start the jtagd > during system startup. > > Jan Two questions, 1) How do you invoke the new beta GUI? 2) What did you do to get udev working? When I tried to use the USB Blaster from CentOS it almost never found the FPGA, on XP on the same machine it worked.
From: Jan Pech on 15 Feb 2010 09:58 On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 14:49 +0000, General Schvantzkoph wrote: > On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:22:13 +0100, Jan Pech wrote: > > > On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 17:11 +0000, General Schvantzkoph wrote: > >> I have a KVM XP VM running on Fedora 12. I'm trying to run SignalTap on > >> the VM however I can't get the VM to see the USB cable. Virt-manager > >> sees the cable and I've attached it to the VM but XP doesn't see it. > >> Has anyone been able to attach an Altera cable to a KVM VM? > >> > >> p.s. the reason that I'm trying to do this with a VM is that Quartus > >> doesn't run on Fedora, just CentOS. Also I've found that the Altera > >> cable driver is pretty much unusable on CentOS so putting a native > >> CentOS partition on machine won't solve the problem. I don't have a > >> native Windows partition on my laptop so that's not an option either. > > > > > > BTW, what is wrong with the JTAG cable driver on CentOS? I use Altera > > tools on both Fedora and CentOS and I had no problems at all. At least > > not since the time I managed to setup udev properly and start the jtagd > > during system startup. > > > > Jan > > Two questions, > > 1) How do you invoke the new beta GUI? > 2) What did you do to get udev working? > > When I tried to use the USB Blaster from CentOS it almost never found the > FPGA, on XP on the same machine it worked. > 1) qgui 2) cat /etc/udev/rules.d/51-usbblaster.rules: BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6001", MODE="0666", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#usbdev}; printf /proc/bus/usb/%%03i/%%03i$${K%%%%.*} $${K#*.}'", RUN+="/bin/chmod 0666 %c" Jan
From: General Schvantzkoph on 15 Feb 2010 12:01
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:58:56 +0100, Jan Pech wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 14:49 +0000, General Schvantzkoph wrote: >> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:22:13 +0100, Jan Pech wrote: >> >> > On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 17:11 +0000, General Schvantzkoph wrote: >> >> I have a KVM XP VM running on Fedora 12. I'm trying to run SignalTap >> >> on the VM however I can't get the VM to see the USB cable. >> >> Virt-manager sees the cable and I've attached it to the VM but XP >> >> doesn't see it. Has anyone been able to attach an Altera cable to a >> >> KVM VM? >> >> >> >> p.s. the reason that I'm trying to do this with a VM is that Quartus >> >> doesn't run on Fedora, just CentOS. Also I've found that the Altera >> >> cable driver is pretty much unusable on CentOS so putting a native >> >> CentOS partition on machine won't solve the problem. I don't have a >> >> native Windows partition on my laptop so that's not an option >> >> either. >> > >> > >> > BTW, what is wrong with the JTAG cable driver on CentOS? I use Altera >> > tools on both Fedora and CentOS and I had no problems at all. At >> > least not since the time I managed to setup udev properly and start >> > the jtagd during system startup. >> > >> > Jan >> >> Two questions, >> >> 1) How do you invoke the new beta GUI? 2) What did you do to get udev >> working? >> >> When I tried to use the USB Blaster from CentOS it almost never found >> the FPGA, on XP on the same machine it worked. >> >> > 1) qgui > > 2) cat /etc/udev/rules.d/51-usbblaster.rules: > > BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6001", > MODE="0666", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#usbdev}; printf > /proc/bus/usb/%%03i/%%03i$${K%%%%.*} $${K#*.}'", RUN+="/bin/chmod 0666 > %c" > > Jan Thanks, its' all working on Fedora 12. I switch to the beta GUI and I set up udev as you suggested and I added the following to /etc/rc.local echo 356 40000 32 32000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sem /usr/local/tools/Quartus/bin/jtagd |