On Tue Jul15'25 08:38:45AM, Ben Matteson wrote: > From: Ben Matteson <bmatteso@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 08:38:45 -0500 > To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Dell Latitude 7420's camera not working on new F42 install > > On Mon, 2025-07-14 at 16:47 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > > > > As an update, rebooting and waiting for the system to come up, that > > webpage above does say "Success" but the camera window is black. > > > > Best wishes, > > Ranjan > > BTW, Dell started including the mipi camera in models in 2022. (Intel > was not fast upstreaming these drivers into the kernel.) Thank you for this! My Latitude 7420 was built in February 2032. > > Might be worth trying different browsers at that test page. There were > changes that had to be made to Firefox and Chrome to make this camera > work in browsers. For a long time, Firefox would only ever show a black > screen for me. I just tried both Chrome and Firefox on my Dell > Precision 5680, and both are successfully showing the webcam (but the > image is showing upside down, weird). > > You can also check for errors in dmesg output, although the device > names for the camera and the sensors are not always obvious. > > I was going to suggest that if you wanted to be sure whether this model > included the mipi camera, you could just check your serial number (sudo > dmidecode -s system-serial-number) over at > https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us and list the specs of the > build, but when I did that with my 5680, the camera description was > completely indecipherable. The report is as follows. 9 rows available Part Number Description Quantity 25W60 INFO,IR CMRA,FOR WBT CHECK 1 6WX9K ASSY,ANT,WLAN LDS,7420 1 X34F6 INFO,TOUCH 1 YHH07 INFO,SWSI,NB,STD,LAT,7420 1 DGDG5 INFO,SWSI,LCD,14.0,TOUCH 1 R8XTC ASSY,LCD,HUD,CFV2,6IR,TS,LD74S 1 4K81V SRV,SW,OS,HELLO,IRLED,LIDCLOSE 1 Y8NWY KIT,TRAY,CF,WLANLDS,7420S/V 1 K15VD ASSY,DOOR,BTM,CF,180,IMAB,742S 1 Not sure how to figure this out! Ranjan -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
