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

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 00:49, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> I'm not going to install Win 10 on the thing.

As you wish.

>  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.

OMG, don't do that! :-o

That sounds like an ideal way to brick it.

> 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.

Use a VM.




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