archlinux-ipu6-webcam

This repository is supposed to provide an easy installation for the patched Intel IPU6 camera drivers. Currently tested on the following kernel versions:

• 6.1.4-arch1-1
• 6.1.4-zen2-1-zen
• 6.1.9-arch1-1

All PKGBUILDs in this repository are taken from this comment on the Archlinux forums. From v1.0.0 on, the PKGBUILDs are slightly modified to avoid conflicts with their AUR counter parts.

Run shell script install.sh to install all necessary packages and enable/start services. Make sure to reboot after a successfull installation.

If you already installed an older version of this repository (pre v1.0.0), it is important to uninstall the old packages first, because as of v1.0.0 custom package names are suffixed with -archfix to avoid conflicts with their AUR counter parts.

Please follow the steps below to upgrade:

1. Uninstall using uninstall.sh from tag v0.1.0.
2. Run git pull to update to tag v1.0.0.
3. Install using install.sh as described in the Install section.

In version v1.1.0 package name suffix archfix is renamed to fix to comply to AUR package naming conventions. Upgrading to v1.1.0 is the same as upgrading to v1.0.0. Please read Upgrading/migrating to v1.0.0 for necessary steps to upgrade to v1.1.0 from any tag prior to it.

Test your webcam by running script test.sh.

If you want to check, whether your camera works in Chromium-based Browsers (like Chrome, Brave, etc.) you can use this website to do so.

You can also use Cheese (a image/video capture software from GNOME) to test your video stack. To do so, identify the name of the device exposed by your video stack with v4l2-ctl --list-devices. Then call Cheese : sudo cheese -d <your_device_name>.

Example: sudo cheese -d "Virtual Camera"

Run shell script uninstall.sh to disable/stop services and uninstall all previously installed packages.

The camera should now work without any major issues in many applications (e.g. Chromium, OBS Studio) but it might not work correctly in some other applications (e.g. FireFox, Discord) due to the default NV12 format not being supported.

This can be fixed by running the install.sh script with a --workaround flag, which will edit /etc/systemd/system/v4l2-relayd.service.d/override.conf to convert the camera output to the YUY2 format.

Please note that some applications (e.g. GNOME Cheese) will still very likely not work. This is due to Intel's driver just being low-quality. There is an issue curently open for this.