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RA63

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Registered: 2022-09-24

Posts: 3

Lenovo X1 carbon 10 gen camera not recognized

Hi,

i have a new Lenovo X1 carbon 10th generation and i'm not able to bring the built in webcam to work.

Apart from the information that:
FHD 1080p camera - tested and works
from the arch linux compability site i cannot find anything to solve my problem.

there is no /dev/video*

dmesg doesn't find the camera ... or something that looks like a camera.

today i updated the bios to the latest version 1.30
and also the linux system

uname -a says
Linux acharly 5.19.10-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:17:59 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

is there something to rescan the hardware especially the camera?

Regards
Robert

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,911

Re: Lenovo X1 carbon 10 gen camera not recognized

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo … 10)#Camera mentions there are 2 camera setups for this laptop :

A FDH 1080 and something called MIPI "Computer Vision"  .
The 2nd one doesn't work, maybe your laptop has that camera ?

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2022-09-24 15:09:06)

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RA63

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Registered: 2022-09-24

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Re: Lenovo X1 carbon 10 gen camera not recognized

A FDH 1080 and something called MIPI "Computer Vision"  .
The 2nd one doesn't work, maybe your laptop has that camera ?

Lenovos System Info says:
1x FHD RGB+IR Camera with ThinkShutter

So it seems that i have the FHD camera.

RA63

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Registered: 2022-09-24

Posts: 3

Re: Lenovo X1 carbon 10 gen camera not recognized

I have checked the configuraion again, the us check says that this is the MIPI camear, the german versin hides this ifo.

Will there be a solution in he near future?
How can i check this?

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: Lenovo X1 carbon 10 gen camera not recognized

Not in the near future, estimates are 1 to 2 years.

Check https://www.phoronix.com/news/Greg-KH-N … cam-Laptop for more info and interesting links..

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airpen

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Registered: 2023-02-25

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Re: Lenovo X1 carbon 10 gen camera not recognized

Hello RA63/Forum

I have the same issue.

Lenovo Hompage says:

Camera
1x FHD RGB+IR Camera with ThinkShutter

So I should have a working camera yes? But there is no /dev/video0 device.

➜  ~ ls -al /dev/vid*
zsh: no matches found: /dev/vid*
➜  ~ sudo v4l2-ctl --list-device
Cannot open device /dev/video0, exiting.

Where did you find the information which led you to the conclusion:

I have checked the configuraion again, the us check says that this is the MIPI camear, the german versin hides this ifo.

What I tried so far:
* installing/booting different kernels: 6.2.0-arch1-1 6.1.14
* installing kernel modules intel_ipu6_dkms intel_ipu6_camera_hal

I never saw any device in lsusb:

➜  ~ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 8086:0b63 Intel Corp. USB Bridge
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 06cb:00fc Synaptics, Inc. 
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 8087:0033 Intel Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

nether in lspci:

➜  ~ lspci     
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4621 (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake Innovation Platform Framework Processor Participant (rev 02)
00:05.0 Multimedia controller: Intel Corporation Device 465d (rev 02)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x4 Controller #0 (rev 02)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt 4 PCI Express Root Port #0 (rev 02)
00:07.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt 4 PCI Express Root Port #2 (rev 02)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core Processor Gaussian & Neural Accelerator (rev 02)
00:0a.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Platform Monitoring Technology (rev 01)
00:0d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt 4 USB Controller (rev 02)
00:0d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt 4 NHI #0 (rev 02)
00:0d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt 4 NHI #1 (rev 02)
00:12.0 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Integrated Sensor Hub (rev 01)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH USB 3.2 xHCI Host Controller (rev 01)
00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH Shared SRAM (rev 01)
00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi (rev 01)
00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 01)
00:15.1 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH HECI Controller (rev 01)
00:19.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 51b8 (rev 01)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH eSPI Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH-P SMBus Host Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P PCH SPI Controller (rev 01)
04:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller PM9A1/PM9A3/980PRO
08:00.0 Wireless controller [0d40]: Intel Corporation XMM7560 LTE Advanced Pro Modem (rev 01)

Any hints / ideas ?
thanks!