Hi Patick,
The iSight non-recognition could have been a problem with an installed
driver for the device. That came up in a search I did when I answered
Krister in another thread. In those instances uninstalling the
problem device driver reportedly made the iSight visible to the system
again. The problem is, the only place where this might have happened
(by my reading of Krister's description) is through a driver loaded
for the VMWare Fusion side, and I have no idea how, if at all, this
might affect the device recognition on the Mac side. The other thing
I found and mentioned (from an Apple Knowledge Base post on trouble-
shooting the iSight -- link to the post was in my response to Krister
and I don't have it handy now) was that they recommended resetting the
SMC unit that powers the Video. This was specifically for the iMac.
However, I figured that since Krister was talking to the Apple Support
folks, she had probably been given all the recommendations in the
Knowledge Base post. This isn't something that I know about myself,
since I don't have an iMac and was only trying out search queries. (I
also don't run Fusion.) The problematic device driver part seemed a
possible answer.
Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 26, 2008, at 10:20 AM, patrickneazer wrote:
Hello Krister and all:
Hmm again! well, please let us know what the repair people come up
with? I myself am at a loss especially since at one time it was
working.
Keep us posted if you would.
On Nov 26, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
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Hi patrickneazer,
On, at [GMT] (which was 14:04 where I live) you
wrote::
p> Hmm, I am a little confused myself. when you ran the connection
doctor
p> in Ichat the software did not indicate anything was wrong? and
then
p> when you looked in the video preferences in Skype the camera pop
up
p> menu was completely blank? there were no options at all when you
p> clicked on the pop up button?
p> Do I have all of that correct?
Yes, and furthermore, allthough the log in the connection doctor
showed nothing was wrong, when i went into the preferences of
Ichat, the microphone was visible, but Ichat reported that there
was no camera connected to the computer and gave me no further
choises. Well, the computer is on repair now, so we hope all will
be well.
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/Krister
