I want to switch to linux on my mac but have a couple of things that won’t work, the cameras wont work or the keyboard backlight.
They apprently work with other builds such as arch and Ubuntuo but i like this fedora build and would like to keep it.
This is my first time using linux and would like to stick with it if i can everything working.
Thanks.
Hi Jim, Welcome to Fedora 
What version of Fedora ore you running? Workstation? F41?
Here are a few links I found for various camera issues. From them I glean that your camera may not be supported in the Linux Kernel. USB cameras are cheap, so some might suggest a broken camera is a feature!
With the backlight, can you set the brighness up-down with F5-F6?
Thankyou for your quick reply, its looking like i will have to abandaon fedora for the time being by the looks of things,
Darn, no the F keys dont function like they did on the mac os. i have been messing with chat GP to get the camera to work what seems to happen is that it keeps pointing to the wrong backlight. I tried loading the keyboard functions but it did not work, tried to use pommed to get the keys to work but that wont install either.
When you adjust the brightness via the terminal it adjusts the sceen backlight even when you try to get it to point at the keyboard back light so i kept going round in circles.
Carrying round plug in cameras is not what im really after i was hoping i could get it to work its such a shame as i really like this format.
I have two 2015 macs and my intention is to have the higher one the 2.8 setup fixed at home, then the 2.5 one for out the house use. The laptops will be set to mirror each other of sorts but the these issues throw a spanner in the works for what im trying to do.
I used to use wndow then moved to mac 15 years or so ago but i’m fed up of apple like i was of windows so now messing about with linux. It’s looking like i’m going to have to wait for these problems to be addressed for fedora. These old macs run everything else really well so i hope they become more popular and these issues can be fixed.
Sorry to hear you have issues running Fedora on Macs.
I have a 2008 MacBook kept for testing purposes which runs Fedora pretty well (given its age).
I’m also virtualizing Fedora on a 2019 Intel MBP (with T2 chip) and on an M1 iMac with UTM using Apple Virtualization. If you have the necessary resources, you could give UTM a try. Of course, not the same experience as a bare-metal installation.
You might want to take a look at this resource. While it refers to 2016&2017 MBPs, many components might be found on 2015 models as well. There are some references to certain patches there.