Charles,

I posted the question on the Altera Forum and got the response that 
talkback is no longer required in 17.1.

Alan

On Monday, April 30, 2018 at 8:38:34 AM UTC-7, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>
> I don't know.  Altera has generally required talkback to be enabled 
> when using the free version of the tools and targeting any of the 
> "complex" FPGA families (SoC+FPGA or the parts with high-speed 
> transceivers) but they may have changed things with 17.1. 
>
> I suspect you'll still need to enable talkback, but it may require a 
> different method.  I haven't worked with 17.1 yet even on my main 
> Windows development system, much less in a Docker VM. 
>
> NOTE: IIRC, when I was trying to get 15.1 working as a Docker image, 
> the "official" way to enable talkback required running a GUI and 
> clicking some buttons which was pretty hard to do from within the 
> Docker build.  I tracked down what was happening behind the scenes, 
> and managed to get the tb2_install program to do what I needed without 
> requiring user input.  You will likely have to figure this out 
> yourself if you're wanting to make a Docker image, or just run the 
> Quartus GUI and enable talkback if you're working with a "regular" system. 
>
> On 4/30/2018 10:16 AM, mugginsac wrote: 
> > I discovered that tb2_install is included in Quartus 15.1 but not in 
> 17.1. 
> > Does that mean that tb2_install is no longer required with the new 
> version 
> > of Quartus? 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > Alan 
> > 
> > On Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 10:59:07 AM UTC-7, DeWayne Young wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Starting the Quartus shell is the first problem from the GitHub readme 
> file 
> >> altera/15.1/embedded/embedded_command_shell.sh   
> >> this does not exist 
> >> 
> >> I installed the Quartus Lite version which installs into alter_lite and 
> >> not altera 
> >> There are no embedded directories at all 
> >> 
> >> attached it the make all output results. 
> >> 
> >> I have a feeling that perhaps something is missing from the Quartus 
> >> Install of 15.1 and the updates upgrade. 
> >> 
> >> But OMG this is allot of FUN 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
>
>
> -- 
> Charles Steinkuehler 
> cha...@steinkuehler.net <javascript:> 
>

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