> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM > From: "Ranjan Maitra via users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Cc: "Ranjan Maitra" <mlmai...@gmx.com> > Subject: Re: Dell Latitude 7420's camera not working on new F42 install > > On Tue Jul15'25 08:38:45AM, Ben Matteson wrote: > > From: Ben Matteson <bmatt...@gmail.com> > > Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 08:38:45 -0500 > > To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > > Subject: Re: Dell Latitude 7420's camera not working on new F42 install > > > > On Mon, 2025-07-14 at 16:47 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > > > > > > As an update, rebooting and waiting for the system to come up, that > > > webpage above does say "Success" but the camera window is black. > > > > > > Best wishes, > > > Ranjan > > > > BTW, Dell started including the mipi camera in models in 2022. (Intel > > was not fast upstreaming these drivers into the kernel.) > > Thank you for this! My Latitude 7420 was built in February 2032. !!!!!
> > > > > Might be worth trying different browsers at that test page. There were > > changes that had to be made to Firefox and Chrome to make this camera > > work in browsers. For a long time, Firefox would only ever show a black > > screen for me. I just tried both Chrome and Firefox on my Dell > > Precision 5680, and both are successfully showing the webcam (but the > > image is showing upside down, weird). > > > > You can also check for errors in dmesg output, although the device > > names for the camera and the sensors are not always obvious. > > > > I was going to suggest that if you wanted to be sure whether this model > > included the mipi camera, you could just check your serial number (sudo > > dmidecode -s system-serial-number) over at > > https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us and list the specs of the > > build, but when I did that with my 5680, the camera description was > > completely indecipherable. > > The report is as follows. > > 9 rows available Part Number Description Quantity 25W60 INFO,IR CMRA,FOR WBT > CHECK 1 > > 6WX9K ASSY,ANT,WLAN LDS,7420 1 > > X34F6 INFO,TOUCH 1 > > YHH07 INFO,SWSI,NB,STD,LAT,7420 1 > > DGDG5 INFO,SWSI,LCD,14.0,TOUCH 1 > > R8XTC ASSY,LCD,HUD,CFV2,6IR,TS,LD74S 1 > > 4K81V SRV,SW,OS,HELLO,IRLED,LIDCLOSE 1 > > Y8NWY KIT,TRAY,CF,WLANLDS,7420S/V 1 > > K15VD ASSY,DOOR,BTM,CF,180,IMAB,742S 1 > > Not sure how to figure this out! > > 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
