Intermittent problem with integrated webcam / Thinkpad E130/ Stretch
Hi,
$ uname -a
Linux e130 4.9.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.246-2 (2020-12-17) x86_64
GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/debian_version
9.13
$ inxi -M
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 33588QG v: ThinkPad Edge E130
I have had a problem with having the integrated webcam to be recognized
by various applications (cheese, Microsoft Teams [yes...], Zoom, etc).
It does work sometimes and it doesn't at other times.
I have various kernels installed (4.9.0-11-amd64 all the way through
4.9.0-14-amd64) and rebooting into each of these kernels won't make much
difference.
I have uninstalled, purged and reinstalled build-essential
linux-headers-`uname -r` linux-image-amd64`uname -r` (for each of the
kernel versions) and usbutils, and I have also uninstalled tlp, but it
doesn't seems to make much difference.
This is the full log of `dmesg|grep video` of today, when I had the last
failure:
https://paste.debian.net/plainh/1c22d1aa
I can't upgrade to Debian stable for a number of reasons that it will
take to long to explain and I have to stick with Stretch for the time
being. I've only had this problem for the last 6 months, presumably
after some upgrades.
Any help will be appreciated.
--
Ottavio Caruso
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