HP laptop built-in webcam disappeared between Xubuntu 16.04 and 18.04

[MR ZenWiz]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 4:31 AM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 13:27, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I did a bit of searching - this HP page suggests you can use Windows to "Create a bootable USB Key to update the system BIOS." using Windows. I know that it is not precisely what you want but it is a start. You could use a Windows computer to create a bootable USB key on a different computer and then use the bootable USB key on your HP laptop.
> >
> > https://support.hp.com/gb-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-elitebook-8740w-mobile-workstation/4138087
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> I think it's mentioned on the link to the update that I supplied.
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> You can always run Win10 temporarily under VirtualBox just to make the
> image. VirtualBox is free, the Win10 ISO is a free download from MS,
> and it doesn't need to be activated just to extract the files.
>
I have a Win 10 VM.  However, all my searches indicate that I need to
download something like Rufus to genereate DOS-boot flash drives as
that capability has been removed from Win 8.1-10 and only exists in
Win 7, which I don't have anymore.

Is that the best way to go?  I want to be sure before I go there.

Thanks.

Mark