I just received my AMD 13" laptop from Framework yesterday. I’m dual booting Win 11 and Fedora 39. Other than run system updates, I haven’t made many changes to Fedora yet. The camera is super dark. So dark that you can only see the faintest outlines if pointed to a light source, but otherwise the video output of the camera looks black.
In Windows it looks fine. Also, when I reboot the laptop, the very first time I launch a camera related app (just been trying cheese and zoom) the image looks normal for about 1 second before going dark. I’ve tried adjusting brightness/gamma sliders in zoom but that just makes the too dark picture washed out.
Anyone have experience or know a solution to this problem?
I’m on the latest .03 BIOS update for the AMD systems.
I use OBS and you can monkey around with various camera settings using v4l2tools (dnf install qv4l2) - i’ve been relatively impressed with it compared to previous laptop cameras tbh. But it’s still nothing compared to a 4k capture source attached to real glass on a compact digital etc.
Thanks. I’d actually stumbled upon that before posting, but doesn’t seem to help. I’m impatient and actually replacing Fedora w Ubuntu (and recommended kernel) now. I’m more familiar w Ubuntu anyway. We’ll see how things go.
Match this. If you did, are in a well lit room (important) and you’re still seeing this, please screen shot your guvcview settings for me and show me an image from the camera as there may be a hardware issue.
If you need to rest guvcview to defaults, Settings, Hardware Defaults.
Try toggling the physical camera switch on top of your display on / off and see if that helps. This may be a dual boot issue. There are some nuances switching back and forth without a full shutdown.
Hey. The toggle switches didn’t work, but powering off fully and then booting straight into Ubuntu, instead of a reboot from Windows, seems to have worked! Thanks!
