On Tue, 2025-01-14 at 14:45 +0000, Paul Smith wrote: > Surprisingly, by connecting the web-camera to a different usb port, > the issue has been fixed.
That could be inadequate power available to that port (bunches of USB sockets are grouped together, and they have a cumulative total that they can supply). But dodgy peripherals is very commonly a loose connection. With the system powered off, you can use a jeweller's screwdriver to bend the spring tangs that grip the metal shell of the USB connector, to make them grip better. I find USB-B connectors are the worst for that problem. USB-A connectors don't make very good connections, they don't have strong contact grip like an edge connector, they're just two PCBs pushed together with fairly weak force. Sometimes it's grotty contacts. And if you don't have proper contact cleaner (do not use general purpose things like WD40, they're corrosive), a clean dry toothbrush often works wonders. Or even one dipped in meths - but *carefully* scrub the contacts until they're dry, don't let it just evaporate (the deliberate contaminants added to poison meths leave crap behind). Clean the plug and the socket. Going off on a tangent... with things like mice, it's often the cable coming out of the mouse has suffered metal fatigue from all the flexing, worse if the mouse tail is being bashed into things on the table. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
