On-board webcam not cooperating

[jlittle]

And tools like Cheese and Kamoso are simply broken sometimes...

Cheese seems to have gone from 26.04, but now Kamoso works for me (it didn't some years ago).

[DezineDude]

Check this out gents!

[die.boer]

please install

sudo apt install v4l-utils

then post output of these 3

v4l2-ctl --list-devices

lspci -nnk | grep -A5 -Ei "ipu|camera|image|media"

ls /dev/video*

do not show us a screenshot ....
in terminal select all text and copy , then paste here

[DezineDude]

How's this?

[claydoh]

Just paste the text, lol

hansk@hans-hpspectrex3602in1laptop16f1xxx:~$ sudo apt install v4l-utils
[sudo] password for hansk:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
v4l-utils is already the newest version (1.26.1-4build3).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
fonts-open-sans gstreamer1.0-gtk3 libaperture-0-0 libavkys9
libllvm19 libuvc0 linux-headers-6.17.0-19-generic
linux-hwe-6.17-headers-6.17.0-19
linux-hwe-6.17-tools-6.17.0-19 linux-image-6.17.0-19-generic
linux-modules-6.17.0-19-generic
linux-modules-extra-6.17.0-19-generic
linux-tools-6.17.0-19-generic qml-module-qtquick-extras
webcamoid-data webcamoid-plugins
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
hansk@hans-hpspectrex3602in1laptop16f1xxx:~$ v4l2-ctl --list-devices
ipu6 (PCI:0000:00:05.0):
/dev/video0
/dev/video1
/dev/video2
/dev/video3
/dev/video4
/dev/video5
/dev/video6
/dev/video7
/dev/video8
/dev/video9
/dev/video10
/dev/video11
/dev/video12
/dev/video13
/dev/video14
/dev/video15
/dev/video16
/dev/video17
/dev/video18
/dev/video19
/dev/video20
/dev/video21
/dev/video22
/dev/video23
/dev/video24
/dev/video25
/dev/video26
/dev/video27
/dev/video28
/dev/video29
/dev/video30
/dev/video31
/dev/media0

Virtual Camera 20260511110143 (platform:v4l2loopback-032):
/dev/video32

hansk@hans-hpspectrex3602in1laptop16f1xxx:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -A5 -Ei "ipu|camera|image|media"
00:05.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake Imaging Signal Processor [8086:465d] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Alder Lake Imaging Signal Processor [103c:891d]
Kernel driver in use: intel-ipu6
Kernel modules: intel_ipu6
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x4 Controller #0 [8086:464d] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company 12th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x4 Controller [103c:891d]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:06.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x4 Controller #2 [8086:463d] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company 12th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x4 Controller [103c:891d]
--
00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio Controller [8086:51c8] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio Controller [103c:891d]
Kernel driver in use: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
Kernel modules: snd_soc_avs, snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl, snd_hda_intel
00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH-P SMBus Host Controller [8086:51a3] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Alder Lake PCH-P SMBus Host Controller [103c:891d]
hansk@hans-hpspectrex3602in1laptop16f1xxx:~$ ls /dev/video*
/dev/video0 /dev/video17 /dev/video25 /dev/video4
/dev/video1 /dev/video18 /dev/video26 /dev/video5
/dev/video10 /dev/video19 /dev/video27 /dev/video6
/dev/video11 /dev/video2 /dev/video28 /dev/video7
/dev/video12 /dev/video20 /dev/video29 /dev/video8
/dev/video13 /dev/video21 /dev/video3 /dev/video9
/dev/video14 /dev/video22 /dev/video30
/dev/video15 /dev/video23 /dev/video31
/dev/video16 /dev/video24 /dev/video32
hansk@hans-hpspectrex3602in1laptop16f1xxx:~$