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17 years ago

Download Issue on VMWare/ Ubuntu 8.04 / Altera Complete Design Suite v8.0 for Linux

Hi,

I have a download related problem with the NiosII SDK running under Ubuntu 8.04 installed on a VMWare server.

I have followed the installing instructions found here:

http://nioswiki.jot.com/wikihome/operatingsystems/quartusforlinux

The application programs including both nios2-ids and nios2-download seems to run properly, and loading the tutorial "hello world" application and building it works fine. The jtagd is created at Ubuntu boot time and appears in the process list, although I am a little unconfortable with not having it launched the proper way with a script in the /etc/init.d folder..

When I try to run the project as "Nios2 Hardware", the IDE reports 50% launch progress and then hangs.:(

When I try to download a sof file using nios2-configure-sof I have success some times - about 25% of the times I'd say.

jtagconfig also sometimes works, but under which circumstances seems pretty confusing to me. I get no systematic behaviour when recycling power on the development board, connecting/disconnecting cables, killing and recreating jtagd etc.

I have a suspicion that the problem is related to jtagd and/or usb-blaster.

Anyone have a clue?

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    Altera_Forum
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    17 years ago

    Seems the problem is resolved:

    I have repeated the installation described on the "nioswiki.jot.com....." howto mentioned above on another computer, running a standalone Ubuntu 8.04.

    I have however, deviated from the recipe on these two points which should not make any difference for the result:

    1. I did not bother about the license stuff for Quartus since I don't need that part of the suite.

    2. I use a script '/etc/init.d/jtagd_init' to control the jtagd daemon instead of starting it from the /etc/rc.local script as suggested in the howto. My init script is "stolen" from a post I stumbled accross (Many Thanks whoever the author is... :-D) and looks like this:

    ----8<--------------------# !/bin/sh

    # ## BEGIN INIT INFO# Provides: jtagd_init# Required-Start: $syslog# Required-Stop: $syslog# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5# Default-Stop: 0 1 6# Short-Description: Start Jtag daemon# ## END INIT INFO

    . /lib/lsb/init-functions

    NAME=jtagd_init

    DAEMON=/opt/altera8.0/quartus/bin/jtagd

    PIDFILE=/var/run/jtagd.pid

    test -x $DAEMON || exit 5

    case $1 in

    start)

    log_daemon_msg "Starting JTAGD" "jtagd_init"

    start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE --startas $DAEMON

    pidofproc $DAEMON > $PIDFILE

    log_end_msg $?

    ;;

    stop)

    log_daemon_msg "Stopping JTAGD" "jtagd_init"

    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE

    log_end_msg $?

    rm -f $PIDFILE

    ;;

    restart|force-reload)

    $0 stop && sleep 2 && $0 start

    ;;

    try-restart)

    if $0 status >/dev/null; then

    $0 restart

    else

    exit 0

    fi

    ;;

    reload)

    exit 3

    ;;

    status)

    pidofproc -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON >/dev/null

    status=$?

    if [ $status -eq 0 ]; then

    log_success_msg "JTAGD is running."

    else

    log_failure_msg "JTAGD is not running."

    fi

    exit $status

    ;;

    *)

    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|try-restart|force-reload|status}"

    exit 2

    ;;

    esac

    ----8<--------------------

    All downloading now works fine!

    I believe VMWare only supports USB 1.1 and not USB 2 and that this is causing the problems.