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HP Pavilion dv6 HD webcam not showing up in Zorin 15 Core

johnnywalters

Thu Aug 01, 2019 10:00:01 pm

I cannot get my HP Truevision HD built in camera to work on my Pavilion DV6 running Zorin 15 core. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Swarfendor437

Fri Aug 02, 2019 12:09:22 pm

Interesting post here (some Windows users have had issues with this webcam in the past too judging by the entire thread):

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebooks ... e#M1757294

johnnywalters

Fri Aug 02, 2019 2:05:08 pm

I have spent four hours researching this issue. It comes down to the driver for the HP TrueVision HD webcam, which is the r5u870 driver. I tried to build a kernel, change the directory, install the driver, all from terminal, and nothing has worked so far.

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1744189

Swarfendor437

Fri Aug 02, 2019 7:17:15 pm

The problem with that link is it is for an extremely old version of ubuntu (2011 iteration). I think you are going to have a major issue with that, bearing in mind that Cyberlink software/hardware was never designed for GNU/Linux in mind - it is not a fault of GNU/Linux. All I can suggest is that you consider purchasing a USB webcam and one that is known to work in GNU/Linux. I have an old Logitech cam that works. For Linux specific you may want to consider:

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/ ... -1536hdcam

:(

johnnywalters

Fri Aug 02, 2019 10:58:08 pm

Thanks for the input. I have a buddy who works at Red Hat, so we are going to try and create a fix with the driver. Thanks again!