Re: Camera on t400s in Win10 32bit

From	Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.laptops.thinkpad
Subject	Re: Camera on t400s in Win10 32bit
Date	2025-01-19 20:04 +0100
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On 19.01.2025 16:45 Uhr bp@www.zefox.net wrote:

> Having shaken down the elderly t400s in both 32-bit Win10
> and 64-bit FreeBSD it turns out FreeBSD seems to think there's
> a camera in the machine. It reports a Chicony webcam attached
> to the USB subsystem. Windows 10 denies this, saying no camera
> can be found via the Camera App. 

This is normal behavior if no driver is installed and the device is not
being detected as camera.

> Looking at the Lenovo website, there seems to be a camera driver
> for 64-bit Win10 but not 32-bit. There are, however, drivers for
> older Windows versions in 32-bit. Is there any point, or harm, in
> trying the WinXP 32-bit camera driver?

I would try Vista/7/8 first, with Vista the driver model was changed.
XP might work, if not install will fail.

> Might there be a better 
> choice altogether? A camera isn't necessary for my purposes, but
> it would be nice to know if it works. At the same time, I'd rather
> not mess up a working installation. 

Then try it in FreeBSD or Live-Linux.

-- 
kind regards
Marco

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Camera on t400s in Win10 32bit bp@www.zefox.net - 2025-01-19 16:45 +0000
  Re: Camera on t400s in Win10 32bit Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-01-19 20:04 +0100
    Re: Camera on t400s in Win10 32bit bp@www.zefox.net - 2025-01-19 20:21 +0000
      Re: Camera on t400s in Win10 32bit bp@www.zefox.net - 2025-01-22 00:21 +0000

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