Apple iSight driver 0.1.0-d
Posted by rbultje at October 5th, 2006
As previously, the newly released 0.1.0-d update (patch, tarball) contains support for two more firmware versions, those with sha1sum c6c94dd77b864f8bd231abf3cb2de4c9d139e1bf and sha1sum 01e291d529e7c18deea2eba252d18114e096276e (provided in the latest OS X 10.4.8). This should make it work again for everyone.
If your firmware is not recognized, please do not just say that it is not recognized. Please send me a copy of your firmware file so I can make it work. Eventually, I hope to be able to redistribute the relevant part of the firmware so I don’t need to jump through those hoops, but right now, this is the only way that I can think of to make it work without getting in big legal trouble.
On my MacBook, when I first boot to OSX ( still 10.4.7 ) and then reboot to Linux, the device is detected by uvcvideo but it is not able to deliver any video image.
When I cold boot to Linux and upload the firmware, there is no such problem. Have you seen this before?Thank you. This new driver works on my MacBook Pro 15″ w/ Ubuntu Dapper like a charm. Cheers.
Hi Ronald,
I am running Gentoo, Gnome 2.16 on a kernel.org mactel linux patched 2.6.17.11 kernel and run into some problems with my iSight. I have managed to get it to detect in Ekiga and built the kernel module and loaded the firmware with the extract binary. However when I try to display the iSight output in Ekiga I get a message: “Error while opening video device Built-in iSight A moving logo will be transmitted during calls. Notice that you can always transmit a given image or the moving logo by choosing “Picture” as video plugin and “MovingLogo” or “StaticPicture” as device. Your video driver doesn’t support the requested video format.” Now I have managed to get the following output: spitfire linux-uvc-0.1.0-e # ./extract /lib/firmware/AppleUSBVideoSupportApple iSight with firmware already loaded found
Apple iSight with firmware already loaded found but I can’t seem to unload and reload it in case there is some problem with the order I did things in. My firmware - copied from the Mac OSX Partition is as follows: spitfire linux-uvc-0.1.0-d # sha1sum /lib/firmware/AppleUSBVideoSupport
01e291d529e7c18deea2eba252d18114e096276e /lib/firmware/AppleUSBVideoSupport So it looks like I have the firmware that you publish second above. Perhaps this is similar to the problem posted by Arne on October 6? I would love to hear your comment. BTW you latest update here shows version d but my install is e… Thank you for your efforts
Will, you most likely didn’t build Ekiga’s v4l2 plugin.