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17 years ago

SOPC Builder GUI Problem

I am running Quartus II version 7.2 and SOPC Builder 7.2 on Ubuntu 8.04. I tried to launch the SOPC Builder from Quartus and I find it that the SOPC main window is blank. However, I can still navigate to the menus (from memory) and have pop-up windows show up. I have attached an image of this as follows.

http://img244.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotyc2.png

FYI, I have updated my Java Runtime. At first I ran this with Quartus II 7.2 sp3 and I thought the sp3 might be causing problems, so I removed the entire Quartus directory and installed again but without the sp3. However, the problem persists.

I can run things fine with the SOPC Builder classic but I find that very hard to use. Therefore, if any1 has any ideas on how to resolve this, please let me know.

Thanks.

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    17 years ago

    The easiest method to resolve these issues is to use an operating system supported by Altera. Ubuntu is not one of them. Look I'm a Linux guy too but at some point we have to stop hacking and get some work done.

    Jake
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    17 years ago

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    The easiest method to resolve these issues is to use an operating system supported by Altera. Ubuntu is not one of them. Look I'm a Linux guy too but at some point we have to stop hacking and get some work done.

    Jake

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    Thank you for your post. But I would really like to keep my current configuration. I will probably fall back to Windows if nothing else works.
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    17 years ago

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    Thank you for your post. But I would really like to keep my current configuration. I will probably fall back to Windows if nothing else works.

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    Or if you really want to keep Linux and use Quartus II (without buying the supported but paid distros like RHEL), use a fully-RHEL-compatible distro like CentOS. Everything in Quartus works fine in CentOS. You can also install Quartus on a Virtual Windows/CentOS Machine on your Ubuntu sustem and then use it.
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    Altera_Forum
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    17 years ago

    Hi,

    I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and Quartus 8.0 sp1 with patch 137 installed.

    I just installed the patch because the GUI suddenly stopped working.

    I tried lots of tips to get the GUI going again, now in the end I found that the mainwin toolkit used by altera stores a lot of stuff in ~/.mw.

    After simply doing a rm -rf .mw, quartus started up again without problems.

    @jakobjones:

    I don't see the point of switching my linux distribution.

    As i need to get stuff done, too, I can't change my distri for every tool I use.

    modelsim, ise, etc. are working on Debian/Ubuntu. So if they can handle it, so Altera should be able to do this, too?

    Ok, I could put the whole quartus stuff in a virtual machine. I don't know if that helps the performance though.

    Maybe Altera should use a different GUI-Toolkit ;-) I use Qt, and have no problems writing software that supports Linux/Windows equally without shipping tons of MSWindows emulation stuff.

    Cheers, Alex