Bug 1346093 - Webcam(s) do not work on Microsoft Surface Book or recent Surface Pro tablets
Summary: Webcam(s) do not work on Microsoft Surface Book or recent Surface Pro tablets
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2016-06-14 00:28 UTC by kxra
Modified: 2018-04-06 18:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-04-06 18:09:48 UTC
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Linux Kernel 109821 0 None None None 2016-06-14 00:28:45 UTC

Description kxra 2016-06-14 00:28:45 UTC
via: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109821

Despite of the existing patch (e.g. https://github.com/tiggerite/mint-17.3-for-surface-pro-3/blob/master/patches-4.3/surface-cam.patch), it seems some surface pro 4 model (E.g. my i7 16G) uses a different webcam solution.

From windows, there are three camera listed with "Camera" in their driver name.
They are Microsoft Camera Front, Microsoft Camera Rear and Microsoft IR Camera Front.

The properties dialogs show that they are OV5693, OV7251 and OV8865, seems they are i2c device instead of usb device.

Comment 1 Laura Abbott 2018-04-06 18:09:48 UTC
Seems like the driver was moved into staging


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