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Black video output on OVTI08F4 (ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13) #434
Description
On a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 (Meteor Lake), the IPU6 pipeline initializes correctly but produces only black frames.
Sensor: OVTI08F4
Environment:
- Linux Mint 22.3 (Ubuntu 24.04 base)
- Kernel 6.17.0-1017-oem
Stack:
- oem-sutton-daisy-meta
- libcamhal-ipu6epmtl
- gstreamer1.0-icamera
- v4l2-relayd
Observations:
- Camera detected by kernel
- /dev/video0 exposed
- stream format NV12 1280x720 @ 30fps
- frames are black
icamerasrc errors:
- Stream config not supported
- No attached camera shared memory
Question:
Is OVTI08F4 fully supported on Meteor Lake outside OEM Ubuntu images?
Any known working configuration?
Activity
burgesQ commentedon Apr 26, 2026
Solved. Root cause: intel-usbio-dkms in Ubuntu noble-updates
(0~git202312141918) is too old and lacks the Arrow Lake ACPI quirk,
so the usbio I2C cells never register properly and the OV08X40 sensor
is never powered on → black frames.
Fix: manually build usbio-drivers from branch WW44.4_25_ptl_pv:
git clone https://github.com/intel/usbio-drivers
sudo cp -r usbio-drivers /usr/src/usbio-0.2
sudo dkms add usbio/0.2
sudo dkms build usbio/0.2 -k $(uname -r)
sudo dkms install usbio/0.2 -k $(uname -r) --force
sudo reboot
After reboot: sensor detected on I2C, correct aiqb loaded
(OV08X40_BBG802N3_RG_MTL), camera working in browser.
Platform: ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13, Linux Mint 22.3
(Ubuntu 24.04 base), kernel 6.17.0-1017-oem.