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ghbrett · Jul 1, 2003, 10:54 AM

I've posted this a couple at a couple other locations, but really am stumped. Any help will be appreciated.

My iSight worked well right out of the box and then I tried it with VRVS (http://www.vrvs.org) which uses X11 based vic, vat, rat and IOXpert Firewire drivers. I was using IOXpert in trial mode. It didn't work basically cause I was behind NAT. But when I then tried to get back to iChat AV - the IOXpert driver kept trying to launch, but didn't "know" the iSight and then shut down turing the iSight off. OK, so I removed the IOXpert drivers using sudo rm -r. Since then I can not get iSight to work. iChat AV works all right until I plug in or turn on iSight and then it (iChat) crashes. So, I tried the other apps friendly to iSight like QT Broadcast and EvoCam... likewise they unexpectedly quit when I turn on iSight.

I have uninstalled iChat and re-installed it. No Luck. I have done lots of searching for the iSight drivers to re-install them with No Luck. I went to local Apple Store Genius and he said run software extension check but had no further clue. Oh, I ran extension and permission checks, found other issues but nothing for iSight nor FireWire.

Oh, this is on a 3 week old 12" G4 Powerbook with 640MB RAM and updated software.

Any suggestions other than re-installing system software??

sandsl · Jul 1, 2003, 12:15 PM

Try repeating the command:
sudo rm -r /Library/Components/IOXperts*

Make sure you have the following files on your mac:
System/Library/Extensions/Apple_iSight.kext

If nothing else, try trashing everything installed by iChat. You can find out everything that was installed by opening the package in pacifist. Then reinstall and try again.

Then, if it doesn't work, reinstall OSX.