Hi,
I am new to Endeavour OS. I have just installed it (kernel 6.13.8).
However, the webcam of my laptop (Dell Precision 5680) does not work.
It uses the Intel ipu6 driver.
Could you tell me how to install it?
Thanks
I found this on the Aur maybe something here is what you need to install it just use yay
yay -S $PACKAGE
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There ia a comment from the packager of one of the AUR’s packages:
This package is obsolete!
Linux kernel 6.10 onwards now has built-in IPU6 drivers and this package will no longer work! Uninstall it from your system if it is still installed.
So if it is already in the kernel… 
find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -type f -name '*.ko*' | grep ipu6
What is the output?
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What are you using to activate it? (Zoom, Cheese, Other ???)
Hi, the output to:
find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -type f -name ‘.ko’ | grep ipu6
is:
/lib/modules/6.13.8-arch1-1/kernel/drivers/media/pci/intel/ipu6/intel-ipu6-isys.ko.zst
/lib/modules/6.13.8-arch1-1/kernel/drivers/media/pci/intel/ipu6/intel-ipu6.ko.zst
I tried to launch Cheese but it does not open.
I tried Google Meet. See attached a screenshot with the error I get.
Could you help me?
Thanks
Share the output:
inxi -Ga
lsmod | grep ipu6
modinfo intel-ipu6
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I tried with Cheese but it does not open.
I also tried with Google Meet. See attached a screenshot with the error I get
The modules are already loaded so I don’t know what is wrong.
Do your laptop have a physical button to turn it on/off:Laptop camera detected but not working 
Does your BIOS have a setting for enable/disable the camera?
You can try unloading and reloading and see if it works:
sudo modprobe -r intel-ipu6
sudo modprobe intel-ipu6
My laptop does not have a button to switch on/off the camera.
If I type
sudo modprobe -r intel-ipu6
I get
modprobe: FATAL: Module intel_ipu6 is in use.
I tried to reboot the system but the camera does not work.
Thanks
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Your camera’s module/driver is loaded and is being used. What is wrong? I don’t know. I have no more ideas. Maybe some other person can help.
Seems there are other users of the same laptop model having issues with that webcam.
But first of all, there is an bios updated marked as critical which has been released recently, version number 1.18.1. Additionally, the webcam could be disabled in the bios, make sure it is.
And based on this, along a patched kernel driver, it seems like it may also require the LTS kernel to get the webcam to work properly.
When I launch Google Meet and try to select the camera, the dropdown menu shows many entries with “ipou6” as in the attached screenshot.
This issue with the Webcam on that laptop model is that the actual kernel driver isn’t the only required driver for the webcam to work properly, the driver for the actual image sensor also needs to be working. And that seems to be the major culprit.
In a nutshell, it’s a bit more complicated. As this post in the Arch forums implies. But note that that user has a slightly different laptop model, the Dell Precision 5690 instead of the 5680 that you’ve got. Thus, the actual camera sensor might be a different one.
is it also not working in the v4l testing tools?
https://discovery.endeavouros.com/hardware/webcam-setup/2022/05/
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I followed the instructions found at https://hansdegoede.dreamwidth.org/28841.html
After typing
ls /sys/bus/i2c/devices
I get
i2c-0 i2c-10 i2c-12 i2c-14 i2c-16 i2c-18 i2c-2 i2c-21 i2c-4 i2c-6 i2c-8 i2c-ELAN900C:00 i2c-OVTI02C1:00
i2c-1 i2c-11 i2c-13 i2c-15 i2c-17 i2c-19 i2c-20 i2c-3 i2c-5 i2c-7 i2c-9 i2c-HIMX1092:00 i2c-VEN_06CB:00
The sensor is:
OVTI02C1
Which is not listed in:
However in Fedora 41 the webcam of my laptop works with kernel 6.13
Thanks
pipewire-libcamera and libcamera-ipa is installed?
And you tried LTS kernel ? to bail out its may a kernel regression?
Yes, both pipewire-libcamera and libcamera-ipa are installed.
I did not try LTS kernel. How to install it?
I am new to Endeavour OS.
Thanks
Check #80 and read through and follow the links. Maybe it will help solve.