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Same problem with Cyclone II and Cyclone IV devices:(
It would be very interesting and helpful for me if anybody can tell that he has managed to use the starter edition of ModelSim-Altera with version 12.1sp1 under Linux.
Anybody?
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I've been trying to get this working under Ubuntu 12.04, and appear to have succeeded.
It works or not depending on which Linux kernel version you're using.
If you follow the regular guidance and configure Quartus to point at the install of modelsim-altera starter edition, you will point it at something like [...]/12.1sp1/modelsim_ase/bin
That bin directory doesn't contain executable files but has placeholder soft links to a script called ../vco (in the parent directory). That script is supposed to work out the best version of the proper executables to run. For Linux kernel versions 2.4.7 to 2.9 it uses the files in modelsim_ase/linux otherwise it defaults to the non-existent modelsim_ase/linux_rh60 directory.
On my system I have created a soft link of the linux directory to linux_rh60 (in the modelsim_ase directory, do "ln -s linux linux_rh60")
You could also edit the vco file to change the one reference to linux_rh60 to use linux instead.
I guess you could also point Quartus at [...]/modelsim_ase/linux instead of the bin directory, but the vco script seems to do some command translation which may or may not be relevant to the current versions of the development environment.
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