> On 14 Jul 2025, at 19:27, Ranjan Maitra via users > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I installed F42 from scratch on a Dell Latitude 7420 about a month ago, and > only now have I noticed that the in-built camera does not appear to be > working. I just get a black screen. > > Perhaps it is missing a driver or something else. I am still runnning > 6.15.4-200 kernel, though the system is up to date. (Since I hibernate, > thanks to friendly advice from here on the how, I don't always reboot into > the newest kernel.) > > Anyway, just wondering what I should be looking at.
A web search for “ Dell Latitude 7420's camera linux” comes up with a number of interesting pages. Especially telling me that it’s an IPU6 camera that requires drivers that are stabilising upstream. IPU6 has been a challenge to support with open source drivers I understand. Barry > Many thanks and best wishes, > Ranjan > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
