V4l2loopback

Aurora
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Hello.
Maybe i am wrong, but v4l2loopback is no more included in aurora an bazzite. I get errors on building via podman and the script from GitHub - moacirrf/v4l2loopback-fedora-silverblue: A simple way to build v4l2loopback module on Fedora Silverblue flavours (Fedora kinoite)..
I am working on a SurfaceGo2 and installed aurora a year ago with everythings working incl. v4l2loopback.

I appreciate any suggestions.

Thx

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Its still in the image

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lsmod | grep v4l2loopback

does not find anything.

modprobe: FATAL: Module v4l2loopback not found in directory /lib/modules/6.13.9-104.bazzite.fc41.x86_64

Whats wrong then?

Need v4l2loopback in order to get the surface-cam working.

Thx

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Donā€™t know if this is related, but I was just looking over the changes on bluefin-dx-nvidia:stable and saw this:

               Downgraded: v4l2loopback 0.14.0-4.fc41 -> 0.13.2-1.fc41

Perhaps something on your system, OP, is dependent on 0.14.x?
Or vice-versa?

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First: Thank u all for caring.

Tried ā€œrpm-ostree install v4l2loopbackā€ (because of rpm-fusion repo) with the following output:
Apr 20 20:46:53 aurora rpm-ostree(akmod-v4l2loopback.post)[58570]: Building /usr/src/akmods/v4l2loopback-kmod>
Apr 20 20:46:53 aurora rpm-ostree(akmod-v4l2loopback.post)[58577]: ERROR: Files needed for building modules a>
Apr 20 20:46:53 aurora rpm-ostree(akmod-v4l2loopback.post)[58577]: 6.13.10-200.fc41.x86_64 could not be foun>
Apr 20 20:46:53 aurora rpm-ostree(akmod-v4l2loopback.post)[58577]: directories are missing:
Apr 20 20:46:53 aurora rpm-ostree(akmod-v4l2loopback.post)[58577]: /usr/src/kernels/6.13.10-200.fc41.x86_64/
Apr 20 20:46:53 aurora rpm-ostree(akmod-v4l2loopback.post)[58577]: /usr/lib/modules/6.13.10-200.fc41.x86_64/>
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Seems like an installation error. Am i right?

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So i found out, that is has something to do with the latest available image installed on my device: latest-41.20250414.
Booting the image before (latest-41.20250412.1) makes v4l2loopback available.

So i go from there an figure out libcamera and gst-launch configs to make the camera working in browser an conferencing again. If someone is experienced in setting up the SurfaceGo2 cam i am thankful for advices.

Regards

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Hello.

Since F42 update from yesterday - everythings working again. Had to fix a config for proper start and stop of the cams but modules are there again.

Thank u all - regards

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