Hi,

In case anyone else had problems installing Xilinx ISE 7.1 on Linux like I
did, here are some solutions.. I installed this on Slackware-current, but it
might apply for your case..

1) Problem: missing libXm.so.3
Solution: Install Openmotif..
2) Problem: something about an RPC error.. message pops up after several
minutes of inactivity..
Solution: Enable RPC
3) Problem: something about a tcp connection error:
Solution: Ensure that your hostname is defined correctly in /etc/hosts (mine
wasn't)

Hope this can help someone else try it out on other distros..

cheers..

--
with metta,
Shawn Tan

Hi Shawn!



Thanks for the hint with hostname. I had persistent problems installing
ISE 7.1 on SuSE 9.2. The installer was not able to find any host to
connect to because of this reason.

One problem remained as the X server did not accept remote connections
on my installation. I had to set DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER_TCP_PORT_6000 to
'yes' in Yast's "Editor for /etc/sysconfig Files" (Desktop->Display
manager) and restart the system. xdm/kdm started the X server with
'-nolisten tcp' when the default setting 'no' for this variable was active.


Best regards

Arnim

Hi!

Thanks for the hints!



This is pachage "libmotif3" in Debian.

Additionally, you need your X11 client listen on TCP, so don't use
"-nolisten tcp" in your X command line. If you happen to use GDM in a
Debian installation as login manager, just change the line
DisallowTCP=true
to
DisallowTCP=false
in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and logout from X and login again.

Additionally I found a problem with the kernel modules, which are compiled for 2.4.20-18.8smp, so with 2.6 kernels you can't use some functionality. I guess this is the serial and USB cable. During installation it also complains about problems reading/creating/modifying the files /etc/rc.local /lib/modules/misc/windrvr6.o /lib/modules/misc/install_windrvr6 /lib/modules/misc/install_xpc4drvr The latter 3 belong to the kernel module thingy which I explained above. Unfortunately Xilinx wants its modules in /lib/modules/misc/ instead of /lib/modules/[version]/misc. :-( Since I don't have the common system config file /etc/rc.local the installer couldn't add an entry to load the two modules. Fortunately, the installer just complains, but finishes gracefully. I tried the ISE. It is implemented using WINE :-(. Why? Silly guys! Besides that, it works properly. Just tried a little project, some synthesis and looked at the RTL schematic. Pretty. If your fonts don't display well, just change them in the Edit -> Preferences... dialog (Console Properties, ISE Text Editor) to e.g. "fixed" with 10px height. This seems not to be possible for the RTL Schematic viewer. :-( Unfortunately my mouse wheel doesn't work in any window of ISE. :-( I hope the additional info is helpful for somebody. Bye Hansi -- Johann Glaser Johann.Glaser at gmx.at> Vienna University of Technology Electrical Engineering ____ http://www.johann-glaser.at/ ____

You also have to edit the Xserver file. #:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -br vt7 :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br vt7 ----- Original Message ----- From: Arnim Laeugerarnim.laeuger at g...> To: Date: Sun Apr 3 22:25:20 CEST 2005 Subject: [oc] Xilinx ISE on Linux installation Problems

Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 09:33 schrieb sjacobs at frs.be:
You can also try to issue:
export DISPLAY=:0
instead of ":0.0" just before starting the graphical xilinx tools
(i just heard of this solution, i haven't tested it myself)

st