Built-in webcam not detected on Arch / Omarchy (/dev/video* missing)

[yassinekrika]

System details

HP EliteBook 835 G8, Omarchy 3.3.3, AMD Ryzen 5PRz, AMD Radeon Veg

What's wrong?

My laptop’s built-in webcam is not working on Omarchy.

The system does not detect any video devices:

ls /dev/video*

returns:

zsh: no matches found: /dev/video*

This suggests the webcam is not being detected by the kernel at all (not an app issue).

What I’ve tried

• Checked /dev/video* → no devices found

• Tried loading the standard webcam driver:

  sudo modprobe uvcvideo

  (no change)

• This appears to be a driver / hardware detection issue, possibly related to newer laptop webcams (MIPI / IPU-based)

Expected behavior

The built-in webcam should be detected and exposed as /dev/video0.

Actual behavior

No webcam device is detected by the system.

[Mrid22]

The webcam seems to be fine for me (/dev/video returns a bunch of results), can you check your bios settings and look for other devices or something like that https://askubuntu.com/questions/1230239/built-in-webcam-not-detected-also-no-dev-video-in-ubuntu-20-04-and-18-04