Bluefin F41 and MIPI Webcam Support

[kmart01123]

Describe the bug

Fedora 41 added support for newer MIPI cameras.
I have confirmed that Fedora Silverblue 41 supports my camera in particular. However, Bluefin 41, based on Fedora does not seem to properly detect my camera. I get a black screen in the GNOME Camera app. I also cannot use my camera in video conferences using Chrome Flatpak browser. The camera is just not detected.

What did you expect to happen?

I expected the camera to work the same as when in Fedora Silverblue 41.

Output of bootc status

❯ sudo bootc status
Place your right index finger on the fingerprint reader
No staged image present
Current booted image: ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin:stable
    Image version: 41.20241215.1 (2024-12-15 23:18:17 UTC)
    Image digest: sha256:98222760881f93e5f84d691d8b4418fb9da8c51112c4b5f66f10581d508f643c
Current rollback image: ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin:stable
    Image version: 41.20241210.1 (2024-12-10 14:18:33 UTC)
    Image digest: sha256:ce61f388853e03552993c4bd412499b09f999f298ec5fe46474dace64d100660

Output of groups

<username> wheel docker incus-admin libvirt

Extra information or context

System hardware model Dell Inc. XPS 9320, firmware revision 2.16.1

[castrojo]

Do we know if any extra steps are needed for the flatpaks we ship? Did you use the firefox in silverblue to test the camera? On Silverblue it's part of the image but on Bluefin it's a flatpak.

[kmart01123]

I used the Fedora (as opposed to Flathub) Flatpak GNOME Camera (org.gnome.Snapshot) app to test. I believe that the app is preinstalled as a Fedora Flatpak on a new install. I also tested in the Flatpak version of Chrome on Fedora Silverblue.

[kmart01123]

Not that I expected this to fix but I upgraded my system's UEFI firmware to 2.17.0, problem is still present.

[uumas]

I haven't tried any other distro, but it isn't working for me either on Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 12. Black screen on Gnome Camera. I tried on firefox using https://mozilla.github.io/webrtc-landing/gum_test.html and got this weird selection:

And error "NotReadableError: Failed to allocate videosource"