I got voice calls working on the Surface Book. Video, not so much. Turns out Microsoft didn't write any linux drivers for their custom camera hardware. Grok happily wrote one for me.
The funny thing is that it worked super hard on it until it actually took a picture which came out garbled. Since then it has been depressed or something. Just giving short answers to my questions and doing no work. I finally got it to rewrite the kernel module to sweep through all possible settings for the camera. We'll see how that goes.
Daniel Wigton
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