Thanks for the reply.
For now, I'll stick on using only one channel of the board.
About the magic numbers, I was wrong about not using it when there is no loopback. It is necessary anyway.
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Sorry for the wait, I was out of the office for a few weeks. I was using the XAUI hard PCS on an Arria II GX, so it might be a little different (haven't done anything with any of the V series parts).
I can't share much of the project, but for clocking I feed the recovered rx clock into the tx clock, and the board's refclk input into the pll_ref_clk input, and feed in a low speed phy management clock, with the proper transceiver reset controller.
Good luck
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