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

never mind, i’ll do without camera, it’s not very important, i’ve mac os for it.

Thanks for all.

If you executed up to, and including, the ift-extract command, with no error, then I don’t know what is going on… maybe it’s a 4.1 issue. Try the Ubuntu community site, or the Gentoo wiki, which in general are excellent info resources.

thanks,
I have MacBook 4,1.

I could see the guide, i have resolved sound problem, but for the camera is the same solution of this page, I retry it, and it don’t work for me.
When I run gstreamer-properties, I’ve no options in Video->Default Input->Device though when I run lsusb I can see Bus 007 Device 005: ID 05ac:8501 Apple Computer, Inc. Built-in iSight [Micron], isight was detected.

If you own a MacBook of the Santa Rosa generation (v3.1 and v4.1) see this guide. To determine which version / generation of MacBook you have, either click in OS X on the Apple on the top left, then “About this Mac” — “More Info…”, see the generation in the “Model Identifier” row; or run in Linux:

% sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name

When I run the above in my laptop, it outputs: “MacBook3,1″

Gstreamer:
The properties doesn’t work for me, “Built-in iSight” not appear as an option, i’ve no options in Video->Default Input->Device.
When i run lsusb, i see the following line:
Bus 007 Device 005: ID 05ac:8501 Apple Computer, Inc. Built-in iSight [Micron].

Isilianes:
I will be able to on the website tomorrow after school for try it.
But, how do i know if i have a santa rosa macbook?

Thanks.

Gstreamer

Run gstreamer-properties. Go to “Video” tab, then in “Default Output” and “Default Input” chose “Plugin”-s an “Device”-s that work. For me, “Autodetect” in “Default Output” didn’t work very well. I chose “X Window System (X11/XShm/Xv)” in “Plugin”, and “Intel(R) Video Overlay” in “Device”. Then in “Default Input” you should choose V4L2 in “Plugin”. In “Device” you will (should) have “Default” and “Built-in iSight”. Any of them gives me the same result: when I hit “Test” a window opens, showing me a video of what the camera currently sees (my ugly face, sadly).

If it doesn’t work for you, and specially if “Built-in iSight” does not appear as an option in your Video->Default Input->Device, then chances are your iSight was not detected.

If the above doesn’t work, run lsusb, and tell me if you see the following line:

Bus 007 Device 005: ID 05ac:8501 Apple Computer, Inc. Built-in iSight [Micron]

I have some problems,

when i start ekiga, i chose V4L2 as video plugin, and the Input device list is empty, i can see “aucun périphérique trouvé” in english: “no device found”.

Everithing is fine yet, i don’t understand because i followed the post without error.