Laptop Camera Black and White in Fedora 41

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I have a Dell G3 3590 and my camera its completly black and white in the whole system, I already installed ffmpeg and @multimedia packages but nothing changes, The camera its working properly, I tested in windows and also in others linux distros. Only in Fedora I’m having this issue, I’m running Fedora Workstation 41 at the moment, and in fedora Silverblue 41 I also had the same error. Does someone can help me how to fix it? I need the camera to make video calls and this is impacting a lot in my routine

Below you can see my hardware information:

Hardware Information:

  • Hardware Model: Dell Inc. G3 3590
  • Memory: 12.0 GiB
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-9300H × 8
  • Graphics: Intel® UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2)
  • Graphics 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
  • Disk Capacity: 512.1 GB

Software Information:

  • Firmware Version: 1.21.0
  • OS Name: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)
  • OS Build: (null)
  • OS Type: 64-bit
  • GNOME Version: 47
  • Windowing System: Wayland
  • Kernel Version: Linux 6.12.4-200.fc41.x86_64
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Does this laptop have a face-recognition feature? Some cameras have an infrared mode which is used to assist in that, and this sometimes shows up as a separate camera device which will be grayscale. Just a guess, but maybe that’s what’s happening here. Does your video call app give you an option to select between multiple cameras?

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No, my camera dont have face recognition. Always worked well on fedora, but I noticed this error in Fedora Silverblue 40 and now in Workstation and SB 41 persistis.

Listing USB I got the name, its: 0c45:671f Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD