Computer/manjaro not picking up webcam on laptop, have tried kamoso and guvcview

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Hardware: thinkpad x1 carbon 10th gen with alder lake i7cpu and ddr5 ram, can get more hardware info if requested

> Installed PCI configs:
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                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
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           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI


Warning: No installed USB configs!

[juan@juanpad ~]$ mhwd -l
> 0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:46a6) Display controller Intel Corporation:
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                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
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           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
            video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI


[juan@juanpad ~]$ 

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.60-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.1
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
    root=UUID=04636919-e516-45b8-ab74-d96556997d0b rw quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor resume=UUID=e2d6e3c5-4a07-41d6-b6f8-2e136caace04
    udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.16.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.29 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
    v: 4.16.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 21CBCTO1WW v: ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 21CBCTO1WW serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO
    v: N3AET62W (1.27 ) date: 06/24/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 12.7 Wh (22.0%) condition: 57.6/57.0 Wh (101.0%)
    volts: 15.9 min: 15.4 model: Sunwoda 5B10W13975 type: Li-poly
    serial: <filter> status: charging cycles: 13
Memory:
  RAM: total: 31 GiB used: 4.82 GiB (15.5%)
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges
    required.
CPU:
  Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-1270P bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
    arch: Alder Lake level: v3 built: 2021+ process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF)
    family: 6 model-id: 0x9A (154) stepping: 3 microcode: 0x421
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 12 mt: 4 tpc: 2 st: 8 threads: 16 smt: enabled
    cache: L1: 1.1 MiB desc: d-8x32 KiB, 4x48 KiB; i-4x32 KiB, 8x64 KiB
    L2: 9 MiB desc: 4x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB L3: 18 MiB desc: 1x18 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 769 high: 1253 min/max: 400/3615:3500 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 1010 2: 1028 3: 415
    4: 681 5: 719 6: 1074 7: 400 8: 1253 9: 473 10: 673 11: 1011 12: 1088
    13: 490 14: 521 15: 718 16: 755 bogomips: 79888
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
    arch_capabilities arch_lbr arch_perfmon art avx avx2 avx_vnni bmi1 bmi2
    bts clflush clflushopt clwb cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8
    de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb erms est f16c flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase
    fsrm fxsr gfni ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify hwp_pkg_req ibpb
    ibrs ibrs_enhanced ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce
    md_clear mmx monitor movbe movdir64b movdiri msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx
    ospke pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pconfig pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pku pln pni
    popcnt pse pse36 pts rdpid rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep
    serialize sha_ni smap smep smx split_lock_detect ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1
    sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tme tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer
    tsc_known_freq umip vaes vme vpclmulqdq waitpkg x2apic xgetbv1 xsave
    xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 status: Vulnerable: eIBRS with unprivileged eBPF
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P Integrated Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-12.2 process: Intel 10nm built: 2021-22+ ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:46a6 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 compositor: xfwm v: 4.16.1 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1600 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x423mm (26.65x16.65")
    s-diag: 798mm (31.43")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0xe3a0 built: 2021 res: 2560x1600
    hz: 60 dpi: 216 gamma: 1.2 size: 301x188mm (11.85x7.4") diag: 355mm (14")
    ratio: 16:10 modes: 3840x2400
  Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A bus-ID: 00:05.0
    chip-ID: 8086:465d class-ID: 0480
  Device-2: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
    alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:51c8 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.60-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:51f0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-10:4
    chip-ID: 8087:0033 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 25.5 GiB (5.3%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
    model: MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7 size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: CL2QGXA7 temp: 38.9 C scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 459.43 GiB (98.20%) used: 25.5 GiB (5.6%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 label: N/A
    uuid: 04636919-e516-45b8-ab74-d96556997d0b
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) used: 312 KiB
    (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: NO_LABEL
    uuid: 3444-8309
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 label: swap
    uuid: e2d6e3c5-4a07-41d6-b6f8-2e136caace04
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 1 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 20 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 3-6:2 info: Synaptics type: <vendor specific> driver: N/A
    interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 06cb:00fc
    class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 3-8:3 info: Intel USB Bridge type: <vendor specific> driver: N/A
    interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8086:0b63
    class-ID: 0000
  Device-3: 3-10:4 info: Intel type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2
    rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0033 class-ID: e001
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 3086
Info:
  Processes: 367 Uptime: 1h 23m wakeups: 3734 Init: systemd v: 251
  default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.1 clang: 14.0.6
  Packages: 1192 pm: pacman pkgs: 1182 libs: 329 tools: pamac,yay pm: flatpak
  pkgs: 0 pm: snap pkgs: 10 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.21
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Hi @johanventa, and welcome!

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ok now it should be fixed

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Hi @johanventa,

I can’t spot anything in your provided inxi output regarding a webcam. And if it was there, it should’ve listed but without a driver. So that makes me think it’s somehow disabled in the BIOS/UEFI. I also know most, if not all laptops provide a key combination to enable/disable the webcam from the keyboard. So double-check that as well.

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Did you check this Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 10) - ArchWiki ?

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I found the camera in IO devices in bios and it was activated(in the sense that the port was open to it) and i checked so that no keyboard thing was desabeling it.

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yes, it didin’t have any info which helped

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What exactly from this wiki was not helpful?

So, what model of the camera your laptop has? If the MIPI model, then how would we know more about that webcam in linux than the Lenovo staff involved in the discussion from the linked Lenovo forum?