Hey, ive just recently bought the Slimbook Creative 15 laptop, and i like it a lot. The only only only issue is that the built it webcam seems to be quite bad.
By bad i mean it has a delay of like 2 seconds and the overall framerate i would estimate to be at 10 FPS, but perhaps its just a software issue or something.
Im running on fedora 43 KDE and i have installed the slimbook-service and the slimbook meta packages:
dnf list --installed | rg slimbook akmod-slimbook-qc71.x86_64 1.0.0-1.1 home_Slimbook kmod-slimbook-qc71-6.17.6-300.fc43.x86_64.x86_64 0.4.4-5.2 @commandline kmod-slimbook-qc71-6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64.x86_64 1.0.0-1.1 @commandline libslimbook1.x86_64 1.19.0-3.1 home_Slimbook python3-slimbook.noarch 1.19.0-3.1 home_Slimbook slimbook-grub-fix-gpiowake.x86_64 24.3.2-2.2 home_Slimbook slimbook-meta-common.noarch 2-14.2 home_Slimbook slimbook-meta-creative.noarch 2-14.2 home_Slimbook slimbook-meta-plasma.noarch 2-14.2 home_Slimbook slimbook-qc71-kmod-common.noarch 1.0.0-1.1 home_Slimbook slimbook-quirk-i8042-reset.x86_64 1.2-3.2 home_Slimbook slimbook-quirk-i8042-wakeup.x86_64 1.2-3.2 home_Slimbook slimbook-rgb-keyboard.noarch 0.6.0-2.1 home_Slimbook slimbook-service.noarch 1.0.0-4.1 home_Slimbook
slimbookctl info
uptime: 4h 43m 57s
kernel: Linux version 6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64 (mockbuild@d49b948bbfce45ee82827ac76e852536) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20251022 (Red Hat 15.2.1-3), GNU ld version 2.45-1.fc43) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Nov 2 15:30:09 UTC 2025
memory free/total: 1.43 GB/14.90 GB
disk free/total: / 242.99 GB/463.16 GB
disk free/total: /home 242.99 GB/463.16 GB
disk free/total: /boot 982.21 MB/1.90 GB
disk free/total: /boot/efi 579.51 MB/598.81 MB
boot mode: UEFI
product: CREA15-A8-RTX
sku: CREA15-A8-RTX
vendor: SLIMBOOK
bios: N.1.09GOS01
EC: 1.17
Serial:
cpu: AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics x 16
memory device: 16384 MB 5600 MT/s
UMA Framebuffer: 512.00 MB
ac: Offline
battery info: 76% Discharging 48640 mAh
primary fan speed: 0 RPM
secondary fan speed: 0 RPM
model:0x20001
platform:0x100
family:creative
module loaded:yes
fn lock: yes
super key lock: no
profile: energy-saver
Might this be a software issue, or should i buy a webcam ? :)
Thank you!