Webcam is not getting detected in fedora39 kinoite

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The webcam in my hp laptop is not getting detected when I use cheese, chrome(google meet). it says device not found as shown as in the following image

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the output from inxi -JGxxz

$ inxi -JGxxz
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-7 ports: active: LVDS-1
    empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0166
  Device-2: AMD Thames [Radeon HD 7500M/7600M Series]
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: radeon v: kernel arch: TeraScale-2 pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:6840 temp: 52.5 C
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.7
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: N/A display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: LVDS-1 res: 1366x768 size: N/A
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: r600 device: 1 drv: crocus
    device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: r600 surfaceless: drv: r600 wayland:
    drv: crocus x11: drv: crocus
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.2 vendor: intel mesa v: 23.3.6 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)
    device-ID: 8086:0166 display-ID: :0.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 0
    type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 8086:0166 device: 1 type: cpu
    driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
  Hub-3: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 8087:0024
  Device-1: 2-1.3:4 info: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Bluetooth type: bluetooth
    driver: btusb rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 0cf3:0036
  Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
    lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
  Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
  Hub-6: 4-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 8087:0024

the output of inxi -M

$ inxi -M
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC
    v: 0792100000205610000610100 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 183E v: 56.32 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI-[Legacy]: Insyde v: F.25 date: 05/29/2013

output of dmesg

$ sudo dmesg |grep video
[    4.634618] ACPI: video: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI(PEGP) defines _DOD but not _DOS
[    4.637415] ACPI: video: Video Device [PEGP] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
[    4.639926] ACPI: video: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
[  588.690603] videodev: Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[  588.928519] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo

output of uname -a

$ uname -a
Linux fedora 6.9.5-100.fc39.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Jun 16 15:57:19 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux

is there any possibilities to make the webcam work. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t work.

Thanks,

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Why did you tag bluetooth?

And all these fancy inxi outputs didnt show the webcam. Use lspci for that.