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  • Camera on t400s in Win10 32bit

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 19 16:45:17 2025
    Having shaken down the elderly t400s in both 32-bit Win10
    and 64-bit FreeBSD it turns out FreeBSD seems to think there's
    a camera in the machine. It reports a Chicony webcam attached
    to the USB subsystem. Windows 10 denies this, saying no camera
    can be found via the Camera App.

    Looking at the Lenovo website, there seems to be a camera driver
    for 64-bit Win10 but not 32-bit. There are, however, drivers for
    older Windows versions in 32-bit. Is there any point, or harm, in
    trying the WinXP 32-bit camera driver? Might there be a better
    choice altogether? A camera isn't necessary for my purposes, but
    it would be nice to know if it works. At the same time, I'd rather
    not mess up a working installation.

    Thanks for reading!

    bob prohaska

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jan 19 20:04:28 2025
    On 19.01.2025 16:45 Uhr [email protected] wrote:

    Having shaken down the elderly t400s in both 32-bit Win10
    and 64-bit FreeBSD it turns out FreeBSD seems to think there's
    a camera in the machine. It reports a Chicony webcam attached
    to the USB subsystem. Windows 10 denies this, saying no camera
    can be found via the Camera App.

    This is normal behavior if no driver is installed and the device is not
    being detected as camera.

    Looking at the Lenovo website, there seems to be a camera driver
    for 64-bit Win10 but not 32-bit. There are, however, drivers for
    older Windows versions in 32-bit. Is there any point, or harm, in
    trying the WinXP 32-bit camera driver?

    I would try Vista/7/8 first, with Vista the driver model was changed.
    XP might work, if not install will fail.

    Might there be a better
    choice altogether? A camera isn't necessary for my purposes, but
    it would be nice to know if it works. At the same time, I'd rather
    not mess up a working installation.

    Then try it in FreeBSD or Live-Linux.

    --
    kind regards
    Marco

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Sun Jan 19 20:21:41 2025
    Marco Moock <[email protected]> wrote:
    B
    On 19.01.2025 16:45 Uhr [email protected] wrote:

    Looking at the Lenovo website, there seems to be a camera driver
    for 64-bit Win10 but not 32-bit. There are, however, drivers for
    older Windows versions in 32-bit. Is there any point, or harm, in
    trying the WinXP 32-bit camera driver?

    I would try Vista/7/8 first, with Vista the driver model was changed.
    XP might work, if not install will fail.


    I don't have anything but 32-bit Win10 handy. If the installer fails
    that doesn't sound too bad.

    Thanks for writing!

    bob prohaska


    Might there be a better
    choice altogether? A camera isn't necessary for my purposes, but
    it would be nice to know if it works. At the same time, I'd rather
    not mess up a working installation.

    Then try it in FreeBSD or Live-Linux.


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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Jan 22 00:21:11 2025
    [email protected] wrote:

    I don't have anything but 32-bit Win10 handy. If the installer fails
    that doesn't sound too bad.


    I tried the 32-bit 7/vista/xp installer. It didn't report any
    errors but the camera app still claims there's no camera.

    However, the green activity LED next to the lens has come on
    a couple of times during reboots, so something is there.

    I've ordered 8 GB of RAM and will start to think about going
    to 64 bit.

    Thanks for reading,

    bob prohaska

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