Bug 1194314

Summary:	video devices not displayed with friendly name
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	David Kerkhof <dutchkind>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	openSUSE Kernel Bugs <kernel-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	dutchkind, tiwai
Version:	Current
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description David Kerkhof 2022-01-04 17:54:58 UTC

When I want to select one of my webcams to do a video conference I am presented with /dev/video0, video1 etc, the normal lowlevel device names. But it used to be, at least a few months ago, that the webcams were shown by their friendlier name like "HD Pro Webcam C920", which makes easier to select the correct one.

I thought this was of my recent new installation of tumbleweed, but when I booted my old tumbleweed it had changed as well, now only showing lowlevel device names. In my opinion a regression from a user point of view.

The plasma hardware info tab shows the friendly name, so it is still read by the system but not shown to v4l2-ctl and webcam applications.

Has this been dropped or has this been changed so it can be activated again?

Comment 1 David Kerkhof 2022-01-04 18:02:42 UTC

Edit, the devices are shown as "Video Capture 3", not as /dev/video0. But still not a user friendly name

Comment 2 Takashi Iwai 2022-01-05 07:47:03 UTC

This change should have been reverted now for bsc#1193255.  Please check the latest kernel in OBS Kernel:stable repo.

Comment 3 David Kerkhof 2022-01-05 17:30:01 UTC

I tried this newer kernel this morning, but it's the same with that kernel. Maybe the patch hasn't been applied yet. But if a patch is already available, I will wait, no problem, as long as this is solved.

thanks a lot,
regards

Comment 4 Takashi Iwai 2022-01-12 09:54:51 UTC

Let's close as dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1193255 ***