facetimehd - Kernel driver for FacetimeHD camera

PPA description

This code is a packaged version of the driver from here:

https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd

This applies to MacBooks from the mid 2010s, with this device or similar:

04:00.0 Multimedia controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries 720p FaceTime HD Camera

If you have any issues with installation please contact here, not github.

To install you'll need to install both packages - as below:

$ sudo apt install facetimehd-dkms facetimehd-firmware

Adding this PPA to your system

You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:greg-whiteley/facetimehd to your system's Software Sources. (Read about installing)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:greg-whiteley/facetimehd
sudo apt update
        
Technical details about this PPA

This PPA can be added to your system manually by copying the lines below and adding them to your system's software sources.

Display sources.list entries for:
deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/greg-whiteley/facetimehd/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main 
deb-src https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/greg-whiteley/facetimehd/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main 
Signing key:
4096R/0C15BBA76D14799725AD30FD68CCE50CB03E29D3 (What is this?)
Fingerprint:
0C15BBA76D14799725AD30FD68CCE50CB03E29D3

For questions and bugs with software in this PPA please contact Greg Whiteley.

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facetimehd-dkms 0.6.8.2-1~202406201136~ubuntu24.10.1 Greg Whiteley ()
facetimehd-dkms 0.6.8.2-1~202406201136~ubuntu24.04.1 Greg Whiteley ()
facetimehd-dkms 0.6.8.2-1~202406201136~ubuntu23.10.1 Greg Whiteley ()
facetimehd-dkms 0.6.8.2-1~202406201136~ubuntu22.04.1 Greg Whiteley ()
facetimehd-dkms 0.6.8.2-1~202406201136~ubuntu20.04.1 Greg Whiteley ()
facetimehd-dkms 0.5.18-1~202303040225~ubuntu22.10.1 Greg Whiteley ()
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