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lord_x

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Registered: 2025-11-05

Posts: 1

Webcam not working on Arch Linux (13th Gen Intel i9 + Iris Xe, Hyprlan

Hey everyone,

I’m having trouble getting my laptop’s built-in webcam to work on Arch Linux.
Whenever I try to use apps like Cheese or Webcamoid, they fail to detect any video input. The webcam works fine on Windows, so it’s definitely a driver or compatibility issue on Linux.

Here are my system details:

  DISTRO: Arch Linux x86_64 
  KERNEL: Linux 6.17.6-zen1-1-zen 
  DE/WM: Hyprland 0.51.1 (Wayland) 
  SHELL: zsh 5.9 
?  CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900Z 
?  GPU: Intel Iris Xe Graphics 
?  DISPLAY: 1920x1080 @ 60Hz (Built-in) 
?  SYSTEM: ZERO BOOK 13 (ZL513_BIOS_ZEROBOOK) 

I’ve already tried:

Installing and running v4l2loopback and v4l-utils

Checking /dev/video* (none found)

Testing with cheese and mpv /dev/video0

Updating the kernel and firmware packages

Running under both Wayland and XWayland

Still, the webcam doesn’t appear anywhere. I suspect it might be related to the Intel IPU6 camera driver (since newer Intel chips use IPU6 for the integrated webcam).

If anyone has managed to get the Intel IPU6 / icamerasrc drivers working on Arch (especially on Zen kernel + Hyprland setup), please share your method or any workaround that helped.

Thanks in advance for any help — this webcam issue has been bugging me for a while now.

jonno2002

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Registered: 2016-11-21

Posts: 835

Re: Webcam not working on Arch Linux (13th Gen Intel i9 + Iris Xe, Hyprlan

see this thread and this post linked in the last post on that thread