Laptop webcam not being detected Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15ITL6

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Hello. The camera doesn’t work in any app. I used to dual boot with windows 11, until I grew tired and formatted the disk. I installed Fedora 38 and the laptop’s camera is no longer being detected, and the camera seems to be overheated.

What I’ve tried:

$dnf update
$sudo modprobe uvcvideo

$v4l2-ctl --list-devices
Cannot open device /dev/video0, exiting.

I have installed Cheese via Flatpak and camera is not detected

Devices output:

❯ dmesg | grep video
[    3.298131] ACPI: video: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)

$lsmod | grep uvc
(nothing)

$inxi -Fzx
System:
  Kernel: 6.4.15-200.fc38.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 2.39-9.fc38 Desktop: GNOME v: 44.5 Distro: Fedora release 38 (Thirty
    Eight)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82H8 v: IdeaPad 3 15ITL6
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: NO DPK serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: LENOVO v: GGCN34WW date: 03/08/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 29.6 Wh (76.5%) condition: 38.7/38.0 Wh (101.9%)
    volts: 8.1 min: 7.7 model: LGC L20L2PF0 status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Tiger Lake rev: 1 cache: L1: 320 KiB L2: 5 MiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1056 high: 2400 min/max: 400/4200 cores: 1: 1006 2: 1023
    3: 1239 4: 474 5: 506 6: 2400 7: 1164 8: 636 bogomips: 38707
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Lenovo
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-12.1 bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0
  Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 22.1.9 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: dri: iris gpu: i915
    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.7 renderer: Mesa Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2)
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3
  API: ALSA v: k6.4.15-200.fc38.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.80 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:00:14.3
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) driver: btusb
    v: 0.8 type: USB bus-ID: 3-10:6
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1
    lmp-v: 10
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller driver: vmd
    v: 0.6 bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 16.77 GiB (3.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: MTFDHBA512QFD size: 476.94 GiB
    temp: 39.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 475.35 GiB used: 16.46 GiB (3.5%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
  ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 297.7 MiB (30.6%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 17.4 MiB (2.9%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-4: /home size: 475.35 GiB used: 16.46 GiB (3.5%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 313 Uptime: 13m Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.41 GiB
  used: 2.94 GiB (19.1%) Init: systemd target: graphical (5) Compilers:
  gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 16.0.6 Packages: 15 note: see --rpm Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
  inxi: 3.3.29

$lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 11th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 01)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 01)
0000:00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP Dynamic Tuning Processor Participant (rev 01)
0000:00:0a.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Tigerlake Telemetry Aggregator Driver (rev 01)
0000:00:0d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 USB Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller
0000:00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Shared SRAM (rev 20)
0000:00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (rev 20)
0000:00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 20)
0000:00:15.1 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 20)
0000:00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Management Engine Interface (rev 20)
0000:00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SATA Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1e.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO UART Controller #0 (rev 20)
0000:00:1e.3 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO SPI Controller #1 (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP LPC Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SMBus Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SPI Controller (rev 20)
10000:e0:1c.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation RST VMD Managed Controller
10000:e0:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev 20)
10000:e1:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Micron Technology Inc 2210 NVMe SSD [Cobain] (rev 03)

$lsusb
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 11th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 01)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 01)
0000:00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP Dynamic Tuning Processor Participant (rev 01)
0000:00:0a.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Tigerlake Telemetry Aggregator Driver (rev 01)
0000:00:0d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 USB Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller
0000:00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Shared SRAM (rev 20)
0000:00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (rev 20)
0000:00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 20)
0000:00:15.1 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 20)
0000:00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Management Engine Interface (rev 20)
0000:00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SATA Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1e.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO UART Controller #0 (rev 20)
0000:00:1e.3 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO SPI Controller #1 (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP LPC Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SMBus Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SPI Controller (rev 20)
10000:e0:1c.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation RST VMD Managed Controller
10000:e0:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev 20)
10000:e1:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Micron Technology Inc 2210 NVMe SSD [Cobain] (rev 03)
❯ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 006: ID 8087:0aaa Intel Corp. Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP)
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I am new to this forum, so if there is something I should add, sorry and please let me know.

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When this happens the kernel not found your cam. You can try an older kernel like LTS:
kwizart/kernel-longterm-6.1 Copr

Please also check what infos you get while checking linux-hardware.org

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That is unlikely – the camera is likely to be getting heat from nearby components, possibly the display backlight.

Cameras are one of the devices that often don’t get much linux support from vendors, so you may want to consider using a USB camera. I assume from your mention of Windows 11 that your laptop is fairly new. Linux device support can be slow to arrive, especially if it depends on community reverse engineering without vendor participation. It won’t hurt to add a probe of your system following the Linux Hardware instructions so you can compare over the few weeks or months with what other linux users with the same hardware are experiencing. If someone gets the camera working and uploads a probe you should be able to see what module they are using.

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How new is your laptop?
My built in camera on my laptop is detected with no issues. Dell Inspiron 5400.