CodeSanity » malfunction http://codesanity.net PHP, Javascript & Technology Ramblings Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:28:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How to Fix an iSight Camera that is Not Showing Up http://codesanity.net/2009/11/fix-isight-camera-showing/ http://codesanity.net/2009/11/fix-isight-camera-showing/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:09:17 +0000 Tom Schlick http://codesanity.net/?p=162 So lately I noticed the iSight web cam on my 2008 Macbook Pro wasn’t showing up to Photobooth, Skype, or any other program i tried to use it in. I checked on a bunch of forums, read apple support pages, and revised google search queries until I wanted to scream! After trying to remember the last time I used the camera it hit me, the last time I used it was in a virtual machine (Ubuntu on VMWare Fusion). I know I had to connect the camera manually by clicking the camera icon in the virtual machine widow so I thought that could be the culprit. It turns out after 3 days of searching that it was the problem.
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So if you are having trouble with yours make sure to activate and deactivate the camera in any virtual machines you have. Hope this helps!

( i am running Mac OSX 10.6.2 on a 2008 Aluminum Macbook Pro )

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