SOPC Builder GUI Problem

[Altera_Forum]

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.

[Altera_Forum]

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

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  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  --- Quote End ---    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.

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  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.  --- Quote End ---     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.

[Altera_Forum]

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