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16 years ago

HOWTO: Setting up the USB blaster on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

edit: as of quartus ii 11.0, altera finally supports /dev/bus/usb out-of-the-box and does not rely on usbfs. the original version of this post described how to "fake" usbfs support in ubuntu, but thi...
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14 years ago

I installed the standalone programmer, and you are absolutely right, it's an x64 issue: unlike Quartus, the programmer does not come with 64-bit executables, and jtagd always runs the 32-bit version.

I've attached a 32-bit build of the library. If you run jtagd like you did before, you'll see a lot of LD_PRELOAD errors, which are harmless (they refer to native commands executed by the script), but jtagd itself should run normally.