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11 years ago

Cyclone V GX 5CGXFC5C6F27C7N is not recognized in ubuntu 14.04

Hello all, I have a Cyclone V GX starter kit (5CGXFC5C6F27C7N) board, and I am trying to program it using Ubuntu 14.04. I already compiled the code and it does not have any error. However, whe...
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11 years ago

Did you setup the USB-Blaster device nodes correctly?

http://www.altera.com/download/drivers/dri-usb_b-lnx.html

These are the RedHat/Centos instructions. Ubuntu is a little different, search the group and you'll find setup instructions. If you can't find them, I can look in my Ubuntu setup notes tomorrow.

Basically you need to set the permissions on the USB-Blaster so that "regular" users can access the device. You can test whether or not this is the issue by plugging in the USB-Blaster and then as root manually change the device node permissions (via chmod 666).

Cheers,

Dave