Support for webcam based on intel ipu6 chipset?

Rocky Linux Help & Support
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Hi

Is there any support in Rocky Linux 9 for the (in)famous Intel webcam based on ipu6 chipset ?
It seems to work on fedora 41 based on : Captcha Check, but for Rocky Linux and other derivatives distros, I have no clues ?

Any through on this ?

Regards

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Fedora uses a 6.13/6.14 kernel, you could try using elrepo and installing either kernel-ml or kernel-lt and see if the camera starts to work. Most likely the base kernels in RHEL/Rocky do not have the module for it, so it will require using a newer kernel.

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IPU6 support has been enabled in elrepo kernel-ml since 6.11:
ELRepo Bugs 0001483

You have to configure pipewire options in firefox after installing kernel-ml:
Jan Grulich’s Blog PipeWire

Finally, you’ll find the latest pipewire/libcamera/wireplumber stack updated for EL9 to help you with this configuration for firefox:
Ligenix Desktop

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Thanks a lot, for the links and for the work.

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I struggled for months to get something working, so I’m glad this might be helpful to others