Reporting success on X1 Carbon Gen 11, 6.6.27-1-MANJARO

[lukemarsden]

Per my comment here: intel/ipu6-drivers#187 (comment)

#80 + #71 + lukemarsden/ipu6-drivers@473f522

This combination is working reliably on a machine that hitherto was highly flaky.

Suggest we aim to merge the above changes into main.

Reposting my comment from intel/ipu6-drivers#187 (comment)

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OK, wow, this issue is finally worked-around on my X1 Carbon Gen 11, and webcam is working reliably 🎉

This is on Manjaro with kernel 6.6.27-1-MANJARO for now, because it (a) has functional non-softisp setup, so picture quality is better and (b) is easier to patch kernel modules by pointing PKGBUILD files at forks of git repos

Instructions based on https://github.com/stefanpartheym/archlinux-ipu6-webcam:

• In case you had previous failed attempts from the repo, run ./uninstall.sh and then reboot. Possibly run paru -R intel-ipu6-dkms-git-fix intel-ipu6ep-camera-hal-git-fix icamerasrc-git-fix intel-ipu6ep-camera-bin-fix if ./uninstall.sh gives errors.
• Check out my fork at https://github.com/lukemarsden/archlinux-ipu6-webcam and switch to fixes-for-recent-releases-77-79 branch - this contains the patch above in lukemarsden/ipu6-drivers@473f522 (pointed to in lukemarsden@9f28e12), this is built on top of the code in Add FORTIFY_SOURCE fix and pin package versions #80
• Run ./install.sh -as
• Apply the fix in CapabilityBoundingSet should not be empty #71
• Reboot twice
• sudo gst-launch-1.0 icamerasrc ! autovideosink now works 100% of the time on a machine where it used to work <30% of the time
• Webcam works reliably in Google Meet on Chrome

[stefanpartheym]

Added the kernel version to the README and referenced this issue.
Thank you :)