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Since the set of rpmfusion intel-ipu6-kmod + ipu6-camera-* package updates from last February the FOSS libcamera-softwareISP and Intel's proprietary stack using the Intel hardware ISP can now co-exist on Fedora systems, sharing the mainline IPU6-CSI2 receiver driver.
Because of this it is no longer necessary to blacklist the kernel-modules from the other stack. Unfortunately when the rpmfusion packages first generated "/etc/modprobe.d/ipu6-driver-select.conf" for blacklisting this file was not marked as "%ghost" in the specfile and now with the February ipu6-camera-hal the file has been removed from the package. This means that if you've jumped from an old ipu6-camera-hal where the file was not marked as "%ghost directly to the latest you may still have the modprobe.d conf file around causing issues. To fix this run:
sudo rm -f /etc/modprobe.d/ipu6-driver-select.conf
and then reboot. I'll also add this as post-install script to the ipu6-camera-hal packages, to fix systems being broken because of this.
If you want the rpmfusion packages because your system needs the USBIO drivers, but you do not want the proprietary stack, you can run the following command to disable the proprietary stack:
sudo ipu6-driver-select foss
Or if you have disabled the prorietary stack in the past and want to give it a try, run:
sudo ipu6-driver-select proprietary
To test switching between the 2 stacks in Firefox go to Mozilla's webrtc test page and click on the "Camera" button, you should now get a camera permisson dialog with 2 cameras: "Built in Front Camera" and "Intel MIPI Camera (V4L2)" the "Built in Front Camera" is the FOSS stack and the "Intel MIPI Camera (V4L2)" is the proprietary stack. Note the FOSS stack will show a strongly zoomed in (cropped) image, this is caused by the GUM test-page, in e.g. google-meet this will not be the case.
Unfortunately switching between the 2 cameras in jitsi does not work well. The jitsi camera selector tries to show a preview of both cameras at the same time and while one stack is streaming the other stack cannot access the camera. You should be able to switch by: 1. Selecting the camera you want 2. Closing the jitsi tab 3. wait a few seconds for the camera to stop streaming 4. open jitsi in a new tab.
Note I already mentioned most of this in my previous blog post but it was a bit buried there.
Because of this it is no longer necessary to blacklist the kernel-modules from the other stack. Unfortunately when the rpmfusion packages first generated "/etc/modprobe.d/ipu6-driver-select.conf" for blacklisting this file was not marked as "%ghost" in the specfile and now with the February ipu6-camera-hal the file has been removed from the package. This means that if you've jumped from an old ipu6-camera-hal where the file was not marked as "%ghost directly to the latest you may still have the modprobe.d conf file around causing issues. To fix this run:
sudo rm -f /etc/modprobe.d/ipu6-driver-select.conf
and then reboot. I'll also add this as post-install script to the ipu6-camera-hal packages, to fix systems being broken because of this.
If you want the rpmfusion packages because your system needs the USBIO drivers, but you do not want the proprietary stack, you can run the following command to disable the proprietary stack:
sudo ipu6-driver-select foss
Or if you have disabled the prorietary stack in the past and want to give it a try, run:
sudo ipu6-driver-select proprietary
To test switching between the 2 stacks in Firefox go to Mozilla's webrtc test page and click on the "Camera" button, you should now get a camera permisson dialog with 2 cameras: "Built in Front Camera" and "Intel MIPI Camera (V4L2)" the "Built in Front Camera" is the FOSS stack and the "Intel MIPI Camera (V4L2)" is the proprietary stack. Note the FOSS stack will show a strongly zoomed in (cropped) image, this is caused by the GUM test-page, in e.g. google-meet this will not be the case.
Unfortunately switching between the 2 cameras in jitsi does not work well. The jitsi camera selector tries to show a preview of both cameras at the same time and while one stack is streaming the other stack cannot access the camera. You should be able to switch by: 1. Selecting the camera you want 2. Closing the jitsi tab 3. wait a few seconds for the camera to stop streaming 4. open jitsi in a new tab.
Note I already mentioned most of this in my previous blog post but it was a bit buried there.
