HP laptop built-in webcam disappeared between Xubuntu 16.04 and 18.04

[MR ZenWiz]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 3:47 AM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
:
> No. It is not a live medium.
>
> But it runs fine without activation -- better than any version since
> activation was introduced. MS has realised it's better to have people
> on the latest OS, but pirated, than on obsolete cracked versions. The
> pool of obsolete Windows acts as a malware infection reservoir, just
> like antivaxxers among humans. You need herd immunity for everyone to
> be safe.
>
I'm not going to install Win 10 on the thing.  I can try to find the
original boot drive and do that, bu tsince we moved, those things are
in a which hunt.

I tried to run it in Wine, and it doesn't work to update the bios
directly - too many errors.

I also can't seem to have it write a bootable flash drive - it can't
mount the drives on the machine, and it doesn't seem to see a drive
even if I run the built-in Wine Windows explorer - I can access the
flash drive but not mount it for Wine/WE use.

Any suggestions or other possibilities?  At this point I'm going on
the which hunt (which box are those things in...).

Thanks again,
Mark