On 1/4/21 1:00 PM, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Hi, > > $ uname -a > Linux e130 4.9.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.246-2 (2020-12-17) x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > $ cat /etc/debian_version > 9.13 > > $ inxi -M > Machine: > Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 33588QG v: ThinkPad Edge E130 > > I have had a problem with having the integrated webcam to be recognized > by various applications (cheese, Microsoft Teams [yes...], Zoom, etc). > It does work sometimes and it doesn't at other times. > > I have various kernels installed (4.9.0-11-amd64 all the way through > 4.9.0-14-amd64) and rebooting into each of these kernels won't make much > difference. > > I have uninstalled, purged and reinstalled build-essential > linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-image-amd64`uname -r` (for each of the > kernel versions) and usbutils, and I have also uninstalled tlp, but it > doesn't seems to make much difference. > > This is the full log of `dmesg|grep video` of today, when I had the last > failure: > > https://paste.debian.net/plainh/1c22d1aa > > I can't upgrade to Debian stable for a number of reasons that it will > take to long to explain and I have to stick with Stretch for the time > being. I've only had this problem for the last 6 months, presumably > after some upgrades. > > Any help will be appreciated. > >
Hi Ottavio, if the issue with your camera is a kernel thing then you can install newer kernel from backports. According to this page - https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linux Linux 4.19.118 is available for Debian 9. HTH Kind regards Georgi
