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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 navigat...
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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