BigG2017

I'll be quite busy over the next couple of months, but I'm not going to give up on getting everything working. Thanks for your diligence!

I've tried both legacy and mainline images as I previously mentioned...webcam not recognized on either for me.

Logitech C525 works out of the box on Fedora Desktop with both Cheese and Skype. What's the deal with Armbian not recognizing the webcam? Any ideas?

I'm always amazed! Thanks again for your help and please provide any other recommendations to get the webcam working. Also, have you experienced any issues when trying to use the Software Store (add-on)? It opens on the Odroid, but it fails to update/refresh to show available packages...activity icon just spins. Curious if you've had any problems.

Looks like a few steps backwards when I tried the legacy image: -Unable to boot to 1024x600 touchscreen display (had to boot using TV screen first for setup) -Wifi adapters (both Airlink and Comfast...Realtek chips) aren't natively recognized -Still no /dev/video for the webcam

uname -r shows "4.9.13-odroidxu4" I'll give the legacy kernel a shot and see if that works. Now I see the comment "Multimedia and desktop usage scenarios" for the legacy kernel, while the mainline kernel is for "Server and light desktop usage scenarios." I must not have noticed that info before.

Is there an easy way to change to the legacy kernel in my current zenial setup or do I need a completely new os image?

Tried again to get a newly purchased C525 working with gcvcview; however, it gives me an error that no webcam is found. Also, I don't see any folder /dev/video. I"m still using the zenial mainline downloaded from the website. Please help. I do have an exagear license for my odroid, so I can see if it will work that way with Skype. I just wanted to give it a basic opcheck first with a simpler program.

I'll probably "wipe out" something before too long...testing could happen sooner than expected! Anyway, thanks for the follow-up and recommendations. My command line experience is very limited at this point, so I'm certainly looking for help as I gain more knowledge. I'll take a look at ddrescue and Etcher.

Well, I may have found an ubuntu post that helped answer my question/solve my problem: https://askubuntu.com/questions/227924/sd-card-cloning-using-the-dd-command states: Insert the original sd card and check the name of the device (usually mmcblkX or sdcX): sudo fdisk -l In my case the sd card is /dev/mmsbkl0. Now you have to unmount the device: sudo umount /dev/mmcblk0 Now to create an image of the device: sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=~/sd-card-copy.img This will take a while. Once it's finished, insert the empty sd card. If the device is different (USB or other type of sd card reader) verify its name and be sure to unmount it: sudo fdisk -l sudo umount /dev/mmcblk0 Write the image to the device: sudo dd if=~/sd-card-copy.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 Those directions appear to have made a .img file using my Fedora 25 machine; however, I have not tried to write that image to a micro sd card to test it. Waiting until that's required!

After making some changes to my Armbian setup on the Odroid xu4, I decided to use the Win32DiskImager tool on my Win10 machine to make a bootable image from the microSD card. However, I've now tried two different micro sd cards (a Samsung and a Sandisk) for the backup, but Win10 tells me that it doesn't recognize the file system. It asks me if I want to format the cards. Obviously I don't, because neither would be usable my Odroid xu4. Any idea why I can't backup these Armbian xenial images? Is there a comparable tool on Linux (I have Fedora on another machine) that can make the backup? (I pulled this issue from another thread where it really didn't belong.) Thanks.

The webcam is apparently not recognized in /dev/video..output from "ls -l /dev/video" says "ls: cannot access '/dev/video': No such file or directory". If the C525 is recognized out of the box, should I just purchase it? I'm certainly willing to make some effort to get this one working, but I'll need some linux guru assistance.

I'm trying to get my Logitech Quickcam working and tested using Armbian Xenial Mainline 4.9.13. It's worked out of the box on just about every other distro tried in recent years...not sure on Armbian. Here is the output from lsusb: Bus 003 Device 007: ID 046d:08d8 Logitech, Inc. Quickcam for Notebook Deluxe Bus 003 Device 006: ID 0c45:7000 Microdia Honestly, the webcam may work fine now, but I'm having issues installing a package to test it, such as Cheese or guvcview. Can someone assist me with checking it out? Once I get the webcam working, I'd like to use it with Google Hangouts or Skype (via exagear). Thanks!

Well, I couldn't determine the cause of signal dropping with the Airlink (RTL 8188CUS), so I took the somewhat easier way out and purchased a similar USB wifi adapter used on this thread with the RTL8812AU. So far, I haven't experience any drops. @tkaiserThanks for the command line help!

Newbie here..."you need to exchange boot scripts, edit this parameter (/dev/mmcblk0p1 -> /dev/mmcblk0p2) and it works." How and when do I exactly do that? Upgrade and then change it? Please help me with necessary command line actions. Thanks!