Just discovered one more thing with my installation. Builtin iSight doesn't work out of the box on Macbook Pro 5.5 as it says on the wiki.Device is not found in either Cheese or Skype.
View 4 RepliesI can't get the iSight working on 11.04. I've extracted the driver and put it in /lib/firmware, shutdown and restarted as per instructions. I even tried downloading the latest version (1.6) of isight-firmware-tools from source but that didn't make a difference.
lsusb still says:
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 05ac:8300 Apple, Inc. Built-in iSight (no firmware loaded)
and ls -l /lib/firmware/isight.fw says:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10871 2011-05-06 11:43 /lib/firmware/isight.fw
I can't see any relevant messages in dmesg.
Bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ls/+bug/762128
I'm new to Linux, and I tried to use my iSight camera (especially for skype). It didn't look so complicated and I saw many posts about that so I decided to do it myself, but I can't get it to work.
I got the AppleUSBVideoSupport file, but when i type ift-extract AppleUSBVideoSUpport in the terminal (using Guake), it tells me : what does that mean ? DOes anybody have the same problem ?
Although I had 11.04 running smoothly on my Macbook 4,1 (OS X 10.5) since it came out, I never bothered to actually test the iSight camera. So I fired up Cheese, but it claimed that it could not detect any webcam installed. gstreamer-properties does not list iSight either.I followed this article step by step: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ma...am/AppleiSight. After installing the firmware I pulled from my OS X partition, neither Cheese nor gstreamer picked up on my camera. As a matter of fact, I investigated further and realized that /dev/video0 does not even exist.The firmware seems to be recognized by the kernel, according to dmesg:Quote:
usbcore: registered new interface driver isight_firmwareI repeated the procedure in the article again after purging the firmware-tools package, but no dice. I resorted to booting back into OS X to use my webcam, but as you can imagine this is not very convenient heh.Does anyone have any advice as to where to go from here?EDIT: I ended up uninstalling the firmwire, since it caused my Macbook to become unresponsive (purple screen of death?) every time after coming out of sleep. I haven't found a solution for that either. For now I guess I'll keep my OS X on a partition to use iSight until something comes up to resolve this issue.
Once I download and install isight-firmware-tools. I am supposed to redirect it somewhere. I tried keeping the default thing set, but it failed to install that way.
(MacBook 3,1. 10.04 LTS)
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Select CD-ROM Boot Type : And a blicking cursor, I have no keyboard control at all, and I can't get something other than switching off the Mac.
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UPDATE: Forgot to mention, I have a swap partition that is larger than 1GB.
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