Re: [arch-general] Laptop's webcam gets blocked randomly

2021-03-08 Thread riveravaldez via arch-general
On 3/8/21, Björn Seifert via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > I have the same laptop. > I cannot test it right now and never looked at the logs, but often the > image stays pitch black even when the webcams hardware light is active. > What works for me is if I flash a bright light (phones flashlight)

[arch-general] Resume from sleep doesn't work any more

2021-03-08 Thread Andy Pieters via arch-general
Hi all As per the subject, Arch goes nicely to sleep, but waking up goes wrong. I see the entries in the dmesg logs: [32990.466213] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed detecting connected display devices [32990.466250] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed detecting connected display devices [32

Re: [arch-general] Laptop's webcam gets blocked randomly

2021-03-08 Thread Björn Seifert via arch-general
Hi, I have the same laptop. I cannot test it right now and never looked at the logs, but often the image stays pitch black even when the webcams hardware light is active. What works for me is if I flash a bright light (phones flashlight) at the camera right after I activate it (e.g. in Zoom),

[arch-general] Laptop's webcam gets blocked randomly

2021-03-08 Thread riveravaldez via arch-general
Hi, I'm having kind of a random webcam unavailability on a Dell XPS L502X (Sandy Bridge) with webcam: ``` $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0408:2fb1 Quanta Computer, Inc. Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_2HDM ``` I already checked [1] but couldn't find no hint in how to diagnose this. Sometimes webcam wor