Questions tagged [camera]
A photo or video device that's typically tethered to the computer via a standard bus such as USB.
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how to enable camera
I have a Generalplus Technology Inc. GENERAL WEBCAM attached to my laptop (Dell precision 7770 running openSUSE Leap 15.6). I last successfully used the camera on Sunday October 12th 2025 with Google ...
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DSLR as USB webcam (gphoto2 and v4l2loopback) not working in Brave and Chromium, but perfectly in Firefox
I use gphoto2 2.5.28-2build2 and v4l2loopback 0.12.7-2ubuntu5 in order to use my Sony A6500 DSLR as a USB webcam in Linux Mint.
Just to make this clear from the start, the camera is working but the ...
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I need to get my microphone, camera, and speaker working on a remote machine over X11
I have a strange situation that needs a strange solution. I have a Windows 7 machine that will not run a particular application. The application is web based so I would like to try using it on my ...
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Integrated IPU6/MIPI camera not working on Dell Latitude 7440 under Debian 12
I have a Dell Latitude 7440 with an integrated FHD RGB + IR Camera, but there are no drivers. It's an IPU6/MIPI Intel camera.
sudo lshw -C multimedia
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Linux OS that supports older hardware in a laptop (web cam, wifi)
I am looking for a Linux OS that will support my older hardware in my laptop (from 2014). I would like to have a simple, not bloated desktop, but also not too ancient-looking ;)
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imx6q-capture driver: mainline kernel + CMOS sensor
Issue with Custom CMOS Sensor on IPU1 CSI0 - No /dev/media0 Node, VIDIOC_STREAMON Fails
I also tried to follow below link:
https://trac.gateworks.com/wiki/linux/media
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I’m working on a custom i....
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Roughly how camera sensor drivers work
I am trying to write a MIPI CSI-2 camera sensor driver for an embedded Linux image. Of course, there are tons of driver source codes on the Github etc. but I am having a hard time understanding how ...
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How to disable some of the interfaces provided by "Intel(R) RealSense(TM)" camera?
I have an Intel(R) RealSense(TM) Depth Camera 435.
This camera exposes multiple interfaces. I'm only interested in one of the interfaces which produces RGB output.
# ls /dev/video*
/dev/video0 /dev/...
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Camera as usb device
I have a Raspberry Pi (Debian version: 12 bookworm)with a camera module attached, and I want to use it as a webcam. I'm a beginner with this kind of setup, so I followed the instructions from here: ...
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Custom Linux No /dev/video0 for i2c camera decoder
I am trying to use tw9990 connected to a ATSAMA5D29 to play a camera feed. I have a custom board where the digital data lines are going to the ISC lines of the processor. I have an embedded linux ...
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integrated webcam (ACER SP514-51N) not working
I don't know if this is the right place (in case it's not, please redirect me to more appropriate site), but trying - the integrated camera on ACER SP514-51N is not working in GNU/Linux. On the same ...
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QoS on Linux: tc doesn't see RTP traffic
I have a camera that creates RTSP traffic. I connected it to a Linux PC via Ethernet, configured the network and access. But when I tried to apply QoS rules, the tc statistics showed that too few ...
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Webcam on dell XPS 13 not working
I am running Ubuntu 22.04.4 on a dell XPS 13 9315 and suddenly started having issues with my webcam.
The camera does not seem to turn on and just shows black in each application I try (chrome, cheese, ...
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i cant open camera file
I got a camera not too long ago, and when I connect it to my computer, all I get is this file. (I use a USB cord I bought off amazon). sI don't know how to screenshot, so apologies for lack of ...
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How to get proper ffplay output with UVC camera?
My end goal is to use a UVC webcam with esp32 or Raspberry PI. I was hoping to learn while doing some fun projects.
I have an old UVC webcam (Creative model ct6840) but I can't seem to get it to work ...
