HP Chromebook 11 G5 webcam issue about breath HOT 3 CLOSED

It looks like maybe it's as simple as installing more kernel modules. Maybe I will fix it myself one of these days.

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Looks like I need kernel module uvcvideo loaded to make the webcam work.
sudo modprobe uvcvideo works but gives an error message (a dependency isn't where it expects it)
I couldn't figure out where uvcvideo actually was. Not in the /lib/modules/5.10.88 directory or subdirectories. Same thing with the dependency (videobuf2-vmalloc). modprobe knows somehow. But the modules can't find their dependencies.

It looks like the whole directory /lib/modules/5.10.88/kernel/drivers/media is missing on my laptop, but it is present in the modules.tar.xz from the latest Breath release. When I copied them over and loaded uvcvideo, the webcam worked.

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Should be fixed in the latest release. It also autoloads with the latest commit.

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