Webcam upside down and not visible in Zoom

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Hi everyone,

I installed F43 a week ago but I can’t seem to make my webcam work properly. When opening the preinstalled app “Kamoso”, my webcam works, although the image is upside down and has a weird coloring. However, I can’t make it work in other apps. In Zoom I can just select “ipu6”, but no video input and no indicator light. I tried using the webcam in OBS but neither the pipewire source nor the v4l2 works.

Do you have any idea what I can do to make it work? My laptop is a Dell Precsion 5680.

Thank you very much in advance.

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

Welcome to Ask

If you search this forum for ipu6 you will find many threads about issues with that camera. Some seem to have found fixes but not all.

This one was on a similar dell product and seems to have a solution that worked for them.

MIPI IPU6 camera only works with Firefox

Hello, I have a Dell Precision 5480 with a MIPI IPU6 camera. I have used it in the past on another distro with the usual DKMS modules + V4L2loopback and although unstable, it worked. When installing Fedora 42, I noticed that it worked out of the box (even in the live CD of the KDE remix). But later on, I noticed that it only works for Firefox. I.e. the Mozilla GUM test shows me the video stream if I visit it in Firefox, but with Chromium, the browser claims that there is no webcam. A similar …

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Thank you for your answer. I already searched and tried out everything from tinkering with libcamera and installing the Intel drivers. Sadly I couldn’t make it work.

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

External usb webcams are relatively inexpensive and may be a very good alternative.