Re: [linux-uvc-devel] Request for support of Chicony webcams in HP Elitebook G5 laptops

[Alexander S. <ale...@sw...>]

Hi Robert, 

Thanks a lot for your answer, that really gives hope for the future. I hope the 4.17(.4) kernel will make it to Stretch backports quickly then. 

There one thing that confuses me now: the devicelist* doesn't contain my device (04f2:b5e7) while your message suggests the driver that's included in the 4.17.4 kernel will have support for the device I have. How does that work? 

A good weekend everyone! 

*) http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/#devices 

Best regards, 
Alex 

> From: "Robert Sandor" <san...@gm...>
> To: "Alexander Swen" <ale...@sw...>
> Cc: "linux-uvc-devel" <lin...@li...>
> Sent: Friday, 20 July, 2018 15:48:17
> Subject: Re: [linux-uvc-devel] Request for support of Chicony webcams in HP
> Elitebook G5 laptops

> Hi Alexander,
> I had the same issue running the HP Elitebook 840 G5 with Ubuntu.
> The issue has been solved in the Linux Kernel version 4.17.4, so installing that
> should enable the webcam.

> Best,
> Robert

> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 3:28 PM Alexander Swen via Linux-uvc-devel <
> lin...@li... > wrote:

>> Hi,

>> I hope I follow all your guidelines for posting in this list as this is my first
>> post here and I couldn't find much documentation about how to file a request.
>> If I do something wrong I hope you forgive me and still want to help me.

>> I recently received a new laptop to do my work on. It's a HP Elitebook 840G5.
>> While HP doesn't bother to support anything else than Windows most of the
>> hardware works out of the box. Not the webcam(s) though. It seems to have quite
>> a cool webcam as it has a iR webcam even.
>> HP has this information available:
>> http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c05868510.pdf (quickspecs HP Elitebook
>> 840 G5)

>> I have collected all information I could find and put in this gist:
>> https://gist.github.com/aswen/6887719c7cef7b15311b08938634bb19

>> I would like to ask you guys to add support for this webcam to the uvcvideo
>> driver. I don't know what else information you need or if there is any way I
>> can help (I'm not a developer).

>> Please let me know if it's possible to add support and if there is anything I
>> can do.

>> Thanks a lot for the uvcvideo work so far BTW: I used it for years on my
>> previous and other laptops.

>> Best regards,
>> Alex

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