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The integrated webcam has stopped working on Ubuntu 19.10 running on my XPS 13. Not sure if this was a breaking change in 18 or 19, but it definitely worked previously. Opening Cheese I just get 'No device found'.

The camera is definitely being detected by the system at least. Here's the output of dmesg:

$ dmesg | grep -i Camera
usb 2-5: Product: USB 2.0 Camera
uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB 2.0 Camera (0c45:6362

And these are the uvcvideo errors I get on startup:

.. kernel: [ 1046.126651] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB 2.0 Camera (0c45:6362)
.. kernel: [ 1046.127803] uvcvideo: UVC non compliance - GET_DEF(PROBE) not supported. Enabling workaround.
.. kernel: [ 1046.128289] uvcvideo: Failed to query (129) UVC probe control : -32 (exp. 26).
.. kernel: [ 1046.128293] uvcvideo: Failed to initialize the device (-5).

This Dell forum thread suggests a fix for 9370 users has been incorporated in to the kernel, but this doesn't seem to be the case for me on 9343.

christopherlovell
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This probably isn't the solution to your problem, but I'll post it here anyway in case it helps someone else.

I have an XPS 13 9343 with Ubuntu 20.04, and the integrated webcam wasn't detected. Turned out I had to enable it in UEFI.

(Note that it had worked before, and I did not actively disabled it.)

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