Linux drivers for Arty and Vivado HW Manager?

[mark05]

I've successfully installed Vivado 2015.3 webpack and generated a bitstream for the Arty GPIO demo.  On Linux, the Xilinx installer does not install "cable drivers"; apparently you are supposed to install those yourself, somehow.  But I am sure not what I need for the built-in JTAG on the Arty board.  Do I want Adept 2 Runtime or something else?  From within the Vivado HW Manager I don't see any driver-install options, and it presently says it cannot find any hardware attached.

Thanks.

 

[jamey.hicks]

I think that the installation script you want is

    Xilinx/Vivado/2015.3/data/xicom/cable_drivers/lin64/install_script/install_drivers/install_drivers

All this script does is install two udev configuration files so that the USB device nodes will be readable by unprivileged users. Installing these in /etc/udev requires root privileges.

 

 

[mark05]

Thanks, that worked.  I intentionally did not run the vivado installer as root; perhaps it would have automatically done this if I had.