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Asked: 2024-09-02 03:54:36 +0800 CST

MacBook Air webcam (FacetimeHD) not working after upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

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I own a MacBook Air 2017, and the webcam worked fine running FacetimeHD/0.1 driver (factimehd-DKMS) on 22.04 LTS.

In order to proceed with the automatic upgrade to 24.04 LTS (on Aug 29, 2024... tadum-dum du-dum), I needed to remove that DKMS driver. Upgrade was successful after that.

Now, I can't reinstall the webcam's driver. There seems to be a problem with broadcom-sat dkms, for which I have two kernels running:

  • broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271, 6.8.0-40-generic, x86_64: installed
  • broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271, 6.8.0-41-generic, x86_64: installed

I did uninstall them to see if they could clear the way for facetimehd-dkms, but all I got was cold sweat from not having Wifi connection. I promptly reinstalled them.

Whatever I do, I get a variation of the following:

> Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.8.0-41-generic (x86_64)
> Consult /var/lib/dkms/facetimehd/0.1/build/make.log for more information.
> dpkg: error processing package facetimehd-dkms (--configure):
> installed facetimehd-dkms package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
> Errors were encountered while processing: facetimehd-dkms
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Has anyone else run into this?

Not sure if it's related: I noticed in other posts that some people had trouble reinstalling their in-built webcam on non-Mac devices after upgrading to 24.04 LTS.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I found the solution (if installing FacetimeHD for the first time, skip to B).

    A) CLEANUP

    If you're getting the same type of error I did, make sure you remove facetimeHD-dkms entirely. Check by typing in the Konsole:

    sudo apt-get purge facetimehd-dkms

    Then check it's gone by typing:

    sudo dkms status

    B) (RE)INSTALLATION

    FacetimeHD for Debian

    You're welcome.

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