Re: Dell Latitude 7420's camera not working on new F42 install

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On Mon, 2025-07-14 at 13:27 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed F42 from scratch on a Dell Latitude 7420 about a month
> ago, and only now have I noticed that the in-built camera does not
> appear to be working. I just get a black screen.
> 
> Perhaps it is missing a driver or something else. I am still runnning
> 6.15.4-200 kernel, though the system is up to date. (Since I
> 


This is probably the issue with the Intel "mipi" camera drivers.
Most Dell machines ship with the "mipi" camera that is only partially
supported in the kernel.  Hans de Goede has been working on support for
this in the kernel and in Fedora
(https://hansdegoede.dreamwidth.org, https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/
). Just check for his posts on ipu6.

There are multiple pieces that need to be installed to make this camera
work. Some of the drivers are already in the kernel, but there are some
sensors included in newer Dells that aren't supported yet.

You can see if the camera on this particular Dell works by installing
the akmod-intel-ipu6 driver from rpmfusion-nonfree. I believe it
requires Secure Boot to be disabled (it builds an unsigned kernel
module).

After the dnf install completes, make sure to give time for the kernel
module build to complete. After that is done, reboot, and check if y
our camera is working:
https://mozilla.github.io/webrtc-landing/gum_test.html.


Regards,
Ben
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