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I bought my macbook pro from a friend who fixes up computers. When I took it home the iSight didn’t work, it doesn’t show up in the usb in system profiler and i get this message when i open up photobooth, “There is no connected camera.” My friend opened it up and reconnected the cables, reset the p-ram and all that stuff. It still does not work. Do I need to buy this replacement cable/parts? [linked product missing or disabled: IF185-125-1] Thanks

Hand the computer back to the friend and tell him you paid for a working computer and did not get one.

Hi I tried it on a mac mini under Catalina, I wanted to connect a buit-in iSight (usb) from an old iMac. But it did not work Any idea ? Thanks, Gérald

Drop the folder iSightFix inside /Library/StartupItems download it here–> http://www.codium.co.nz/index.php/downlo… Terminal instructions: $ cd /Library/StartupItems $ sudo chown -R root iSightFix $ sudo chgrp -R wheel iSightFix $ sudo chmod -R 755 iSightFix $ ls -l drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 9 Dec 10:25 iSightFix The correct permissions should look like this (doing Apple-I on the iSightFix folder): Many thanks for publishing this patch. At first it did not work for me, but it did when I modified the Info.plist contained in the AppleUSBVideoSupport.kext package to match the Vendor and Product IDs shown in the System Profiler. When you get a “Vendor specific” USB device, instead of “Built-in iSight”, it means that Vendor ID and/or Product ID in the firmware are corrupted. In order to force firmware reloading, you must thus:

  1. Take note of “Vendor ID” and “Product ID” shown in System Profiler;
  2. Convert the two IDs from hexidecimal to decimal. You can find a conversion utility here: http://www.statman.info/conversions/hexa… Example. If Vendor ID is 0xffac, type ffac in the converter and click on “to decimal” button (result for ffac is 65452);
  3. Take note of the two decimal values;
  4. Open the downloaded iSightFix folder;
  5. Open the Resources folder;
  6. Cntrl-click on AppleUSBVideoSupport.kext;
  7. Choose “Show package contents”;
  8. Open the Contents folder;
  9. Double click on the Info.plist;
  10. Expand IOKitPersonalities (click on the arrow at left);
  11. Expand “Video support”;
  12. Modify the value of idProduct to match the decimal value of “Product ID”;
  13. Modify the value of idVendor to match the decimal value of “Vendor ID”;
  14. Save Info.plist (File menu->save);
  15. Quit “Property List Editor”;
  16. Drop the folder iSightFix inside /Library;/StartupItems, change permissions as described and restart your Mac;
  17. Once the iSight is recognized by Mac OS/X, move the folder iSightFix from /Library/StartupItems to the Trash (you will be prompted for your password).