iSight green capture issue

**drewjurecka** · July 5th, 2009

where can the patch be found? can you post a link?

**drewjurecka** · July 5th, 2009

nevermind. I followed tiagobt's instructions and it worked perfectly. Thanks!

**robin.nightingale** · July 19th, 2009

Thanks for the how to of tiagobt.
Now the cam works perfectly from today ubuntu will be my main os.

Thanks

**sau99ms** · July 22nd, 2009

Originally Posted by mabovo

I've applied the patch in Launchpad and green issue has gone.

Mac2,1 - Jaunty(Kernel 2.6.30-RC5).

Hi,

I'm having the same problem with my Macbook 2,1 running Jaunty only - it's been a week and loving it(!) I'm a real newbie so could you spell out how you applied the patch. I tried the same as someone before - adding the videoscale aprt but it won't save. I really do appreciate your help - I haven't video chatted with my wife for a week because of this bug so I can't thank you enough in advance for your help.

All the best,

Mark

**sau99ms** · July 22nd, 2009

Originally Posted by volanin

Thank you!
To avoid the system-updater annoyance, just:

Code:

$ sudo aptitude hold lib32v4l-0 libv4l-0
$ echo "lib32v4l-0 hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
$ echo "libv4l-0 hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections

Hi again,

Can someone help and tell me where I'm going in. I copied and pasted this into my terminal and it didn't work after trying cheese. Am I right in thinking that I need to enter something instead of the 'Set Selections' part in the code. If so - what do I enter here? I have to say it's not entirely obvious so some clarification would really be appreciated!

Thanks,

Mark A. N. Ewbie

**tiagobt** · July 23rd, 2009

Originally Posted by sau99ms

Hi again,

Can someone help and tell me where I'm going in. I copied and pasted this into my terminal and it didn't work after trying cheese. Am I right in thinking that I need to enter something instead of the 'Set Selections' part in the code. If so - what do I enter here? I have to say it's not entirely obvious so some clarification would really be appreciated!

Thanks,

Mark A. N. Ewbie

Did you try the instructions I sent some posts ago?

Notice, however, that the patch only works with Cheese. If you want iSight to work with all programs, you have to revert the webcam driver. Take a look at the following instructions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ma.../Jaunty#iSight

**Rog-Mahal** · July 24th, 2009

It might be helpful for 64 bit users to know that they have to downgrade the lib32v4l package as well in order for some programs to work (and to keep the update manager from bugging you that a package is broken). You can find it here.I found that Cheese would work with just libv4l, but Skype required downgrading lib32v4l as well.

Hope that helps!

**tripundra** · August 8th, 2009

I had the green thing.
And installing the apple-isight-firmware, plus upgrading to the Karmic libV4l did the trick.

It now works well both with Cheese, Skype, you name it!

Here goes the link!!
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/libv4l-0