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My cam doesn't work on my 5 year old Inspiron either. It's one of the reasons I'm not buying the Inspiron 16 plus in this moment.
by Darmody 3y ago
My cam doesn't work on my 5 year old Inspiron either.
It's one of the reasons I'm not buying the Inspiron 16 plus in this moment.
- gerdesj 3y agoWhichever distro you use, there will be a selection of kernels to choose from. Even Arch has an elderly LTS option. Gentoo obviously offers all kernels since 0.97 (dig out egcs) including several that haven't been released and a couple that will never exist outside of a parallel reality! I've owned several Inspirons and have no issues but then I use Arch (actually). Have a look into what kernels are on offer and consider a different one. However you may have another issue because I seem to recall that cams are now all basically standards based. Try grabbing a couple of live "CDs" of other distros and boot them. See if your camera works. Try something like OpenSuSE "tumbleweed".
- Darmody 3y agoI've been using different kernels since 4.x up to 6.5.4 and many distros. There are no drivers for the webcam.