[Coco] Cococompatible monitors... [Now CoCo3FPGA, FPGA Development, and GIME replacement]

[gene heskett]

On Thursday, July 07, 2011 07:07:03 PM Mark McDougall did opine:

> On 8/07/2011 12:37 AM, gene heskett wrote:
> > I am, at this point, leaning toward the
> > slightly smaller Spartan3 board, but haven't yet placed the order.
> 
> I'm very heavily biased towards Altera silcion (the Quartus tools are
> almost universally acknowledged as being 'better' and easier to use
> than the Xilinx tools) so I'd recommend the DE1 myself.
> 
I am beginning to lean that way. Xilinx has already updated the package 
AND gzipped it this time, but now my longish passwd is being bounced.

The quartus package _may_ be the better package, I have no way of knowing 
since I cannot get either to install;

The link to quartus site spit out a 20M script yesterday, which when I 
try to run it, as gene or as root, fails very quickly:

[root at coyote Download]# sh ./altera_installer.external.sh
Creating directory bin
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Altera 
Installer.......................................................................................................................................
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 23, in <module>
  File "/tools/python/2.6.4/linux32/pyinstaller/iu.py", line 436, in importHook
  File "/tools/python/2.6.4/linux32/pyinstaller/iu.py", line 521, in doimport
  File "/build/swbuild/SJ/nightly/11.0/157/l32/work/installers/linux32/build/pyi.linux2/altera_installer_cmd/outPYZ1.pyz/cli", line 23, in <module>
  File "/tools/python/2.6.4/linux32/pyinstaller/iu.py", line 436, in importHook
  File "/tools/python/2.6.4/linux32/pyinstaller/iu.py", line 521, in doimport
  File "/build/swbuild/SJ/nightly/11.0/157/l32/work/installers/linux32/build/pyi.linux2/altera_installer_cmd/outPYZ1.pyz/altera_installer", line 
34, in <module>
  File "/tools/python/2.6.4/linux32/pyinstaller/iu.py", line 436, in importHook
  File "/tools/python/2.6.4/linux32/pyinstaller/iu.py", line 521, in doimport
  File "/build/swbuild/SJ/nightly/11.0/157/l32/work/installers/linux32/build/pyi.linux2/altera_installer_cmd/outPYZ1.pyz/gui_common", line 17, in 
<module>
  File "/tools/python/2.6.4/linux32/pyinstaller/iu.py", line 477, in importHook
  File "/tools/python/2.6.4/linux32/pyinstaller/iu.py", line 495, in doimport
  File "/tools/python/2.6.4/linux32/pyinstaller/iu.py", line 297, in getmod
  File "/tools/python/2.6.4/linux32/pyinstaller/archive.py", line 468, in getmod
  File "/tools/python/2.6.4/linux32/pyinstaller/iu.py", line 109, in getmod
ImportError: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: gzdirect

[root at coyote Download]# python --version
Python 2.6.6

[root at coyote Download]# ls -l /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Apr 18 22:55 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 -> libxml2.so.2.7.8

So it appears my system is using those two packages that are newer than 
altera's.

And the password I set there yesterday, no longer works today.  What is 
it with these folks who can't be bothered to tell you a 20+ character 
password evaporates overnight?  I mean how hard is to to put a max size 
along with the min size?  Grrrrrr.  Do winderz people have to put up 
with this bs?

> If you want to play with non-Coco implementations as well, I believe the
> DE1 is better supported (Minimig, Zet etc). I also think the addition
> of SDRAM, SD card and more colour resolution on the VGA is a selling
> point.

I am thinking of ordering the DE1 board for this winters project.  I have 
a couple coco3 cases I can clean out, in which case I will have at least 
1 stock coco3 motherboard for sale.

> Regards,


Cheers, gene
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