Linux Distributions for Orange PI H3 boards

stone

@survive-pi:  You need to solve the intermittent ping failure issue.  You are going to get halfway thru installing the GUI, your internet is going to die, and the install will fail halfway thru.   Maybe move closer to your wifi router or somehow point the antenna vertically.  Or it could be that the wifi is unstable (I've been using wire).  

We've got to get you away from photographs of the screen too.  Do you have a laptop running windows?  If so download putty here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/.  Then you should be able to run it and connect to your orangepi by typing in its IP address, which you saw when you did an ifconfig (192.168.1.108).  But note that that address might change when you reboot the orangepi.  Also if ping is not stable you'll lose connectivity.

Also, this probably isn't your EMMC issue but don't use btrfs its unstable.

What is your screen resolution and SD card size?  I can give you a ubuntu 14.04 image that installs to my emmc if you want to try it.

toxuin

Hello!

I am trying to make a USB webcam work on my Orange PI PC with no luck.

It is a standard UVC webcam, known to work on my desktop linux machine with UVC driver and mjpg_streamer.
Thing is – even if I do "insmod uvcvideo" I cannot see the webcam as /dev/video0. So no software can interact with it.
Am I missing something?..Here is lsusb output:

1. orangepi@OrangePI:/dev$ lsusb
   
2. Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
   
3. Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
   
4. Bus 006 Device 004: ID 046d:08d7 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate STX

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Here is lsmod output:

1. orangepi@OrangePI:/var/log$ lsmod
   
2. Module                  Size  Used by
   
3. snd_usb_audio          79205  0
   
4. snd_usbmidi_lib        17391  1 snd_usb_audio
   
5. snd_hwdep               5337  1 snd_usb_audio
   
6. uvcvideo               59634  0
   
7. 8189es                887631  0

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Survive-Pi

@stone
Ya, only got putty to connect once. Never connects when I'm trying something that doesn't work... sorry about that...beat the hell out of typing!
I've tried w/without btrfs
Screen works hdmi anything 480 to 1080. 480 is only one that doesn't overscan. I Usually use 720 so colors don't blind me and things show around edges. With 1080 task bars totaly disapear.
Using 32G card. 8G is the one that failed couple days ago.
I had older loboris image on emmc. It is gone now with the failed attempts with newer images. I will go back and try it if I can figure out which one it was just to make sure my emmc is ok.
Now I can't get fs_resize with openSuse either. Wifi works ...
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WARNING: TO RESIZE FILESYSTEM RUN:
sudo fs_resize
to remove this message run:
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/fs_resize_warning
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orangepi@nohostname:~> cd /usr/local/bin
orangepi@nohostname:/usr/local/bin> ls -a
.          fs_resize_warning     install_to_emmc    install_x2goserver
..         install_lxde_desktop  install_to_sdcard  install_xfce_desktop
fs_resize  install_mate_desktop  install_to_usb
orangepi@nohostname:/usr/local/bin> sudo fs_resize
root's password:
sudo: fs_resize: command not found
orangepi@nohostname:/usr/local/bin>

Sent from Orange Pi Plus
p.s. THANKS

toxuin

@Survive-PI I guess you need to invoke the command like this: sudo ./fs_resize
Obviously, don't forget to be in the /usr/local/bin path.

Survive-Pi

stone replied at 2015-10-23 19:22
@survive-pi:  You need to solve the intermittent ping failure issue.  You are going to get halfway t ...

So if the ping returns steadily like the first half of that ping picture then i have a chance to install on line... working fine right now... How do you stop the ping? xterm I can just close the window. When i did it without gui I couldn't get out...

toxuin

Survive-Pi replied at 2015-10-23 19:38
So if the ping returns steadily like the first half of that ping picture then i have a chance to i ...

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Survive-Pi

toxuin replied at 2015-10-23 20:55
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Thank you very much! Went back to latest image, Ubuntu wily. Install to emmc works. Install mate desktop works. ONLY change was point WiFi antenna up... Tell me how THAT affected emmc... LOL. Thank you everyone, learned lots! But nothing at same time... I just don't know what changed. Thanks again. I'll be watching

geev03

Tried Ubuntu_wily ('Ubuntu_wily_mini.img.xz  - Boris Lovošević ')  on Orange Pi-PC.
How to get the network connection?  dmesg | grep eth0 gives the following
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[   21.404633] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: eth0: PHY ID 0000ffff at 0 IRQ poll (gmac0-0:00)
[   21.414821] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: Initialize hardware error
[   21.663956] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: eth0: PHY ID 0000ffff at 0 IRQ poll (gmac0-0:00)
[   21.674148] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: Initialize hardware error
[   21.879945] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: eth0: PHY ID 0000ffff at 0 IRQ poll (gmac0-0:00)
[   21.891679] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: Initialize hardware error
[   22.067493] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: eth0: PHY ID 0000ffff at 0 IRQ poll (gmac0-0:00)
[   22.077680] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: Initialize hardware error
[   22.243938] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: eth0: PHY ID 0000ffff at 0 IRQ poll (gmac0-0:00)
[   22.254126] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: Initialize hardware error
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AndrewStone

@geev03 are any leds blinking on the eth jack?  If not it is powered off.  You did not pick the right kernel image in the BOOT partition.  What board do u have?  Pi plus?

Thumos

Not being proficient in Linux, I struggled with the install process somewhat. I did an install write=up that provides a little more step=by=step detail for people just starting out with the Orange Pi PC and Linux. Nothing really orginal here but it may be useful to someone:  http://vosse.blogspot.com/2015/10/installing-linux-img-files-on-orange-pi.html