Dell Latitude 7320 2-in-1 Seeing Web Camera Support On Linux After Five Years
The Dell Latitude 7320 2-in-1, released in 2021 with Intel Tiger Lake processors, has finally gained front-facing web camera support on Linux after five years of missing functionality. Recent kernel patches identified the OV5678 sensor as compatible with an existing OV5675 driver, enabling video streaming despite imperfect colour rendering due to an RGB‑IR filter. The rear camera remains unsupported, and the patches address ACPI, PMIC, and media subsystem integration.
- ▪The Latitude 7320’s web camera was previously unsupported on Linux because the Intel IPU6 driver lacked specifications for the OV5678 sensor.
- ▪Linux contributor Sahan Nissanka discovered the sensor matched the OV5675 driver and submitted three kernel patches to enable the front camera.
- ▪The patches allow the 5 MP camera to stream video, but colour accuracy is reduced due to the sensor’s RGB‑IR filter, which lacks a proper media bus code.
- ▪Support for the rear‑facing camera is still pending as the reset/power‑down GPIO assignment is being resolved.
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Dell Latitude 7320 2-in-1 Seeing Web Camera Support On Linux After Five Years Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 9 August 2026 at 06:37 AM EDT. Add A Comment Launched back in 2021 was the Dell Latitude 7320 2-in-1 business laptop/tablet powered by the at-the-time impressive Intel 11th Gen Core "Tiger Lake" processors. Remaining elusive until now has been the web cameras actually working on Linux, but patches posted this weekend finally are cracking that mystery at least for the user-facing web cam. The Dell Latitude 7320 laptop was one of the early users of the Intel IPU6 IP that took some time to sort out and for the Linux support to come about in a suitable way. Back in 2022 it led Linux's second-in-command Greg KH to recommend avoiding laptops with Intel IPU6.
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