This laptop embeds one of these new "complex" cameras from Intel. They requires IPU3 driver. Though, unlike traditional webcam, you need special userspace to use it (there is no embedded firmware to manage focus, whitebalance, etc, userspace code need to read the stats and manage that). As of now, there is no good plan on how to support this in userspace. I have seen a lot of Intel engineer speak about GStreamer element icamsrc, which would support this camera, but haven't seen any public source code, so I can only assume it's all closed source. It's also of limited use considering that browsers don't use GStreamer. If I was to propose a plan, this should be integrated into Pipewire daemon, which is upcoming userspace daemon to multi-plex notably cameras across multiple process (a bit like pulseaudio for audio). It's also the foreseen solution for sandboxed application that cannot directly access any of the /dev, hence reserve forever a sesrouce like a camera. On Linux Desktop, this is a very bad launch, it will likely takes some times before your camera works out of the box (if ever). Nicolas Le dimanche 01 avril 2018 à 18:17 +0200, Frédéric Parrenin a écrit : > Dear Sakari et al., > > The acpi tables are apparently too big for the mailing lists. > So I put the file here: > https://mycore.core-cloud.net/index.php/s/DwTOb8TJJZYJtNe > > Any information on what is going on with the webcams will be > appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Frédéric > > > > > Or drivers. And a bit more than that actually. Assuming this is > > IPU3, that > > is. If that's the case, the short answer is there's no trivial way > > to > > support webcam-like functionality using this device. The ACPI > > tables would > > tell more details. > > > > Could you send me the ACPI tables, i.e. the file produced by the > > command: > > > > acpidump -o acpidump.bin > > > > In Debian acpidump is included in acpica-tools package. > > > > Thank you. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
