ipu6-drivers VS icamerasrc

It to me like support landed August 29th, according to https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers/pull/174

Alas the IPU6 driver for webcams has been sitting around unreviewed for a while now. https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers/issues/22#issuecomment...

Huge block of code so I understand but also for sure one of the worst most commonly experienced incompatibilities for contemporary Intel laptops.

Personally, I'm waiting for the camera drivers to be merged into the mainline Linux kernel, which should then be picked up by Fedora relatively quickly. About the camera, as per https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/webcam-on-dell-xps-13-plus-9320-intel-ipu6/68920, there seems to be some packages on RPM fusion that will help, but you'll still need to install some things from source (https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers), and apparently that entails reinstalling the drivers whenever you update the kernel, so that's a no-go for me. I stick with Fedora because I prefer it to Ubuntu, and even the Ubuntu install was buggy, the wifi connection was unstable and the camera only worked in some apps (the ones that use libcamera). I'm pretty mad that Canonical would give its seal of approval to hardware with this level of support…

I have bought acer swift 3 laptop, but it seems webcam is not working on linux for these. Can someone please help me to install https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers on my arch linux ? I have intermediate experience with arch but haven't build/compiled kernels.

I'm following the instructions here https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers installing all other requirements. Tried 2 times and still no success seeing any camera picture in cheese or gst.

Avoid. I made a mistake and bought it, but it came with cameras that are not supported. And no, https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers/ will not help either, because the OV5678 sensor does not yet have any driver.

To use the camera, you need the correct driver, and libcamera. For IPU3, the driver is in the kernel, it is just unusable without libcamera and without the manufacturer putting the correct information about it into ACPI tables (which they often don't do, because it is also sufficient to hard-code this in WIndows drivers). For IPU6, you need to visit https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers/, and even then, some sensors are unsupported. Judging by the commit history, the driver is on life support (i.e. only adaptations to the new kernel versions done by Hans de Goede, not by Intel) and no new sensors are being added.

see: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/wpooq8/thinkpad_x1_carbon_gen_10_linux/ https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/x5zlpt/my_thoughts_so_far_on_x1_carbon_gen_10_highest/ https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers

Then try the gstreamer pipelines from https://github.com/intel/icamerasrc/tree/icamerasrc_slim_api but I won't be surprised if they don't work because there are too many unsupported sensors.