Many recent Intel laptops have replaced the standard UVC USB camera module with a raw MIPI camera-sensor connected to the IPU6 found in recent Intel laptop chips.Both the hw interface of the ISP part of the IPU6 as well as the image processing algorithms used are considered a tra … | Continue reading
There is an issue with the rpmfusion packaged IPU6 camera stack for Fedora is not working on many Dell laptop models after upgrading the kernel to a 6.5.y kernel.This is caused by a new mainline ov0a10 sensor driver which takes precedence over the akmod ov0a10 driver but lacks VS … | Continue reading
I have just become aware that Fedora users using the packaged IPU6 camera are having an issue where the output from the camera is black. We have been updating the stack and the new version of ipu6-camera-bins has hit the stable updates repo, while the matching new version of ipu6 … | Continue reading
InstallationI am happy to announce that Intel's IPU6 camera stack has been packaged in rpmfusion and now can be installed under Fedora 37 and newer with a single `dnf install` command.First enable both the rpmfusion-free and rpmfusion-nonfree repositories, for instructions see ht … | Continue reading
As mentioned in my previous blog post, I have written a new patch series for 6.2 to try to avoid having multiple entries in /sys/class/backlight for a single panel again.This new series might cause regressions on a different set of even older laptop models then the one affected b … | Continue reading
I have received quite a few test reports in response to my previous blog post. Many thanks to everyone who has run the tests and send me their results!These tests show that as a result of the current 6.1 changes quite a few laptop models will end up with an empty "/sys/class/back … | Continue reading
Now that FESCo has decided that Fedora will keep supporting BIOS booting, the people working on Fedora's bootloader stack will need help from the Fedora community to keep Fedora booting on systems which require Legacy BIOS to boot.To help with this the Fedora BIOS boot SIG (speci … | Continue reading
This all started with a Mele PCG09 before testing Linux on this I took a quick look under Windows and the device-manager there showed an exclamation mark next to a Realtek 8723BS bluetooth device, so BT did not work. Under Linux I quickly found out why, the device actually uses a … | Continue reading
First of all, as always my opinions are my own, not those of my employer. Since I have 2 children I was happy to learn that the Netherlands would be one of the first countries to get Disney+ streaming. So I subscribed for the testing period, problem all devices in my home run Fed … | Continue reading
A big project Ive been working on recently for Fedora Workstation is what we call flickerfree boot. The idea here is that the firmware lights up the display in its native mode and no further modesets are done after that. Likewise there are also no unnecessary jarring graphical tr … | Continue reading