Copilot fixed his Surface Book 3 Linux camera driver in two hours
marian_nmt · x · 2026-10-04
An engineer used Copilot to fix the long-missing Surface Book 3 camera driver on Linux in two hours: mapping both sensors, CSI-2 routing and RAW10 formats, tracing the front-camera failure to receiver reset timing, porting IPU4P to Linux 6.8 without disabling Secure Boot, converting raw frames to upright color video, adding on-demand capture so cameras sleep when unused, and fixing GNOME Camera discovery, crashes and switching. Source, patches and a setup guide are published.
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