I've had that when the video lock switch was enabled, and when
sysctl kern.video.record=0.  Make sure to enable the sysctl, and check
that you flipped the switch to enable the video.


On 2024 Jul 12 (Fri) at 13:04:10 +0530 (+0530), Sandeep Gupta wrote:
:I have a non-mainstream laptop (company name: chuwi). Working great so far
:but not the webcam. I did a `dd if=/dev/video0 of=webcam_data.bin bs=1024
:count=10` and all i am getting is the stream of 0s.
:
:I checked the bios, couldn't find anything useful to tweak there. Is this
:some hardware issue with the laptop that is beyond the os/driver stack.

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