Comments on: Making iSight camera work in Ubuntu

By: Billy Fix Isight

Billy Fix Isight — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:04:25 +0000

Hey Guys!
I installed Ekiga and my iSight camera worked great but I could not use it anywhere else.
I found out that when I tried Cheese, the camera screen was black. When I tried gstream -properties, it told me the camera was “busy” and could not change to 640×480. I had to go to the list of “services” running and deleted everything related to camera softwares (including ekiga, which actually was using my camera in the background for no reason.)

After that I came back to Cheese and changed the resolution to 320×240 (or something like that) and changed it back to 640×480 and then the picture appeared. I hope this helped!!!

By: Trying to go 100% Linux

Trying to go 100% Linux — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:23:22 +0000

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By: Evan Crockett

Evan Crockett — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:57:07 +0000

I had trouble from the very first command. I’m extremely new to Ubuntu, and have almost no idea how to use the command line. Here’s what I did:

evan@evan-laptop:~$ sudo cd
sudo: cd: command not found

??? I don’t get it, can anyone help a brother out?

By: Mark Dominus

Mark Dominus — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:26:00 +0000

Thanks, this was really helpful.

By: Dong Calmada

Dong Calmada — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:00:32 +0000

It worked! Thanks a lot.

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By: isilanes

isilanes — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:07:36 +0000

I’m happy to hear that, kelvin.

By: kelvin

kelvin — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:26:28 +0000

For anyone else who stumbles upon this page:

The link (Built-in iSight Webcam at help.ubuntu.com) by isilanes on 04 Sep 2008 at 11:11 am got my iSight to work, surprisingly despite that the guide was for the MacBook Santa Rosa.

I am grateful to this page.
I own a MacBook 2,1.

The Link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook_Santa_Rosa#Built-in%20iSight%20Webcam