IPU6 cameras with ov02c10 / ov02e10 now supported in Fedora

[hansdegoede]

I'm happy to share that 3 major IPU6 camera related kernel changes from linux-next have been backported to Fedora and have been available for about a week now the Fedora kernel-6.14.6-300.fc42 (or later) package:

1. Support for the OV02C10 camera sensor, this should e.g. enable the camera to work out of the box on all Dell XPS 9x40 models.
2. Support for the OV02E10 camera sensor, this should e.g. enable the camera to work out of the box on Dell Precision 5690 laptops. When combined with item 3. below and the USBIO drivers from rpmfusion this should also e.g. enable the camera on other laptop models like e.g. the Dell Latitude 7450.
3. Support for the special handshake GPIO used to turn on the sensor and allow sensor i2c-access on various new laptop models using the Lattice MIPI aggregator FPGA / USBIO chip.

If you want to give this a test using the libcamera-softwareISP FOSS stack, run the following commands:

sudo rm -f /etc/modprobe.d/ipu6-driver-select.conf
sudo dnf update 'kernel*'
sudo dnf install libcamera-qcam
reboot
qcam

Note the colors being washed out and/or the image possibly being a bit over or under exposed is expected behavior ATM, this is due to the software ISP needing more work to improve the image quality. If your camera still does not work after these changes and you've not filed a bug for this camera already please file a bug following these instructions.

See my previous blogpost on how to also test Intel's proprietary stack from rpmfusion if you also have that installed.

Comments

ov02c10 - black image

[peshovec]

Hello,

Followed the steps to file bug, just to share debugging information (tried to state it clear, that it is not redhat/fedora bug tough.)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2369821

Dell XPS 13 9320

[mad3]

Great work!

Do you know the state of Dell XPS 13 9320 now, with the 6.16 kernel out and such? It was something about iVSC and ljca and whatnot (I honestly have no clue what these things actually are..)

(I'm guessing the answer to the above is "no", but if the support were there, would it work with vanilla libcamera, or does libcamera need some ipu6-specific pipeline which is not upstream? If you want to get this working on something non-fedora that is...)

Re: Dell XPS 13 9320

[mad3]

Forgot to mention that 9320 uses ov01a10

Re: Dell XPS 13 9320

[hansdegoede]

The camera on the Dell XPS 13 9320 should work OOTB with Fedora 43.

Name of USBIO rpmfusion package

[kieranatkins]

Hi,

I am trying to get the webcam working on my Latitude 7450, it currently partially works so I likely need the USBIO rpmfusion package. Your link above asks for login credentials, what is the name of the USBIO rpmfusion package you're talking about so I can try installing it?

Thanks,
Kieran.

Re: Name of USBIO rpmfusion package

[hansdegoede]

Hi,

The USBIO drivers have been merged upstream and these have been backported to the Fedora 6.17.y kernels. If you update to the latest Fedora 42 / 43 kernel then you will get the USBIO drivers without needing any packages from rpmfusion.

Regards,

Hans