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IPU6 support on Linux

  • March 3, 2025
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Hi,

 

I use a Thinkpad X1 Gen 11 with a Raptor Lake chipset/cpu and an IPU6 camera with openSUSE Tumbleweed.

IPU6 cameras have been a long standing issue and are still not fully supported everywhere but with the latest software in openSUSE:

- kernel 6.13.4

- libcamera 0.4.0

I can finally at least get a video picture from the qcam application which is part of libcamera.

Camera is also referred to as "ov2740" in case that is important.

 

Still the latest Zoom client 6.3.11 does not show any video. It selects the Camera "ipu6" but it stays black.

 

Anyone knows the state of support of this camera within Zoom? Should I rather raise a support issue?

 

Thanks,

 Wolfgang

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    wrosenauerAuthor
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    January 8, 2026

    Updated my openSUSE Tumbleweed to latest snapshot and I still only see "ipu6" in the list and it cannot be activated. I understand that it might still be missing base support in the OS but it's quite hard to figure out what is there and missing.

    libcamera's qcam still works (it does since a while; not best quality but at least shows a picture) with some warnings and errors on the console though.

     

    But I can confirm that the zoom web app is able to capture video at least. The quality is bad and the zoom factor is too big (I can basically just see my eyes in front of the cam) but at least something.

    So I assume that the basics in the OS work (maybe firmware issues or whatever to get proper video quality) but the latest zoom client does not work still.

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      Matthias Eisenacher
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      January 27, 2026

      Same problem here. Would be excellent if the zoom developers could fix this soon. The camera is working fine with Cheese. I just tested Fedora 43 and I am using a Dell Detachable 7350.

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