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15 years ago

Quartus II Settings File contains an illegal device family

Hi all,

I just started using Quartus II as a complete newbie. Unfortunatelly I got stuck with the following problem:

I installed the free Quartus II Web Edition Version 10.0 Build 262 on an Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS system (32-bit).

When I'm running the New Project Wizard, there is an error message:

"Quartus II Settings File contains an illegal device family -- using default device family Stratix".

On the Family & Device Settings page, I can only select the Arria GX family. The CycloneIII family and all the other device families I selected during the installation are missing.

I tried reinstalling Quartus, but it still doesn't work.

On an other computer, which is running exactly the same version of Ubuntu and Quartus, it all works fine.

How can I fix that?!

Thanks for your help,

Jonas Lindmann

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    15 years ago

    I just had a look at the two Threads 10.0_quartus_linux.sh and Altera Installer on Fedora 12 (and other Linux distros). Unfortunately I didn't get an idea of how to install device families manually and how to get rid of the device families which are supposed to be illegal.

    I tried some stuff using the --update argument of the installer but didn't have any success.

    Could you please give me a hit how to start the manual installation?

    Thanks for any help!

    Jonas Lindmann

    P.S.: This is an extract of the log-file which seems relevant to me: 

    Installing package : Arria II GX Family ...
starting subprocess:
   /etc/altera/quartus/bin/quartus_sh --qinstall -qda "/home/carsten/Desktop/10.0sp1_quartus_free_linux/altera_installer/bin/../../devices/subscription/arriaii.qda" -show_qt_progress
quartus_free install process 10801 finished with status 2
/etc/altera/quartus/bin/quartus_sh: 59: ARGV=--qinstall: not found
/etc/altera/quartus/bin/quartus_sh: 59: ++val: not found
/etc/altera/quartus/bin/quartus_sh: 59: ARGV=-qda: not found
/etc/altera/quartus/bin/quartus_sh: 59: ++val: not found
/etc/altera/quartus/bin/quartus_sh: 59: ARGV=/home/carsten/Desktop/10.0sp1_quartus_free_linux/altera_installer/bin/../../devices/subscription/arriaii.qda: not found
/etc/altera/quartus/bin/quartus_sh: 59: ++val: not found
/etc/altera/quartus/bin/quartus_sh: 59: ARGV=-show_qt_progress: not found
/etc/altera/quartus/bin/quartus_sh: 59: ++val: not found
export: 137: 2400.00: bad variable name
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    15 years ago

    This shows how I had to install the device families: 

    sudo bash /home/josy/altera/10.0/quartus/bin/quartus_sh --qinstall -qda "/home/josy/Documents/10.0_quartus_linux/altera_installer/bin/../../devices/subscription/arriagx.qda" -show_qt_progres

    Replace arriagx.qda by the family you want to install. Use your appropriate paths.
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    15 years ago

    Hi all,

    I' ve a similar problem with Quartus 2 Web Edition Version 10.1 on winxp and on win7(64-bit)

    I've installed only cyclone II device family (i'm working on it) and when i start the New Project Wizard, the error message is:

    Quartus II Settings File contains an illegal device family -- using default device family Cyclone IV GX"

    but then the wizard lets me choose the right device...what's wrong?
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    15 years ago

    Hi, I have exactly the same problem as Phil82, using Windows 7 64-bit, with only Cyclone II installed and so on. I think it may be related to upgrading to a newer version of Quartus. I however made sure to uninstall completely the older version before installing the new one.

    Where is this 'Settings File' located ? Is this error important ? Does anyone know how to solve it ? Thank you