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MiPi Camera for Lenovo

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Overview

MIPI "Computer Vision" - does not work, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_(Gen_10).
"Computer Vision" camera doesn't have drivers, but that's the only camera available with OLED 2.8k screen.

Solution

Looks like there could be a solution, mentioned inhttps://askubuntu.com/a/1461869.

You have to install all 4 repos:

Additional Packages

Additional packages to install

sudo apt install autoconf automake libtool
sudo apt install cmake
sudo apt install ibgstreamer1.0-dev and libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev
sudo apt install alien

Install the RPM in the last repo with sudo alien icamerasrc*

Caveats

  • Ensure to use icamerasrc_slim_api branch on the icamerasrc repo

Final

$ v4l2-ctl --list-devices
ipu6-downstream (PCI:pci:pci0000:00):
    /dev/video0
    /dev/video1
    /dev/video2
    /dev/video3
    /dev/video4
    /dev/video5
    /dev/video6
    /dev/video7

ipu6-downstream (pci:pci0000:00):
    /dev/media0