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 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.
Hello, as a follow-up to the thread you have linked, I mostly use the closed-source IPU drivers, you can switch with the command
ipu6-driver-select proprietary
The command tells you to restart pipewire to apply the settings, but in practice I found a full reboot to be more reliable.
Proprietary drivers pipe the webcam video stream through a virtual “v4loopback” device which does the conversion. The resulting image is high quality, but all the machinery is unstable. If the webcam stays black, especially after the laptop has been suspended, or after you have just used it, you can try to restart pipewire:
