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Apple Boot Camp - Can anyone use iSight with 1.1?

  • 21-08-2006 5:02pm
    #1
    Mizu_Ger
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    I installed Boot Camp 1.1 on my MacBook and setup Windows XP, but can't get the iSight to work. Has anyone had any success with this? It seems to be a bit hit-and-miss as to whether the camera will work or not (from what I have read around the internet). The microphone and speakers work fine, but can't get the damn camera to work.

    Device Manager sees the camera, but has it "yellow-question-marked" out. If I try to install the driver manually from the Mac Driver CD, it fails.

    Help me :( Its the main thing I wanted Boot Camp for and its not working!!!!!!


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  • #2
    irlrobins
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    Moving to mac forum


  • #3
    SystemError51
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    Mizu_Ger wrote:
    I installed Boot Camp 1.1 on my MacBook and setup Windows XP, but can't get the iSight to work. Has anyone had any success with this? It seems to be a bit hit-and-miss as to whether the camera will work or not (from what I have read around the internet). The microphone and speakers work fine, but can't get the damn camera to work.

    Device Manager sees the camera, but has it "yellow-question-marked" out. If I try to install the driver manually from the Mac Driver CD, it fails.

    Help me :( Its the main thing I wanted Boot Camp for and its not working!!!!!!


    As far as I am concerned, the iSight is a true Macintosh piece of hardware. So far there haven't been any Windows drivers around and Apple does not reveal the hardware specifications, thus it's not possible to write a driver.

    Bottom line is: iSight does not, and probably will never, work on Windows XP.


  • #4
    Mizu_Ger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭Mizu_Ger


    SystemError51 wrote:
    As far as I am concerned, the iSight is a true Macintosh piece of hardware. So far there haven't been any Windows drivers around and Apple does not reveal the hardware specifications, thus it's not possible to write a driver.

    Bottom line is: iSight does not, and probably will never, work on Windows XP.

    Boot Camp 1.1 includes windows drivers for the iSight camera (according to the release notes) and I have seen comments from people around the web who have it working (although not sure what type of Mac they were using, but it was the built-in type, so should be more or less the same as the MacBook's camera).


  • #5
    SystemError51
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭SystemError51


    Mizu_Ger wrote:
    Boot Camp 1.1 includes windows drivers for the iSight camera (according to the release notes) and I have seen comments from people around the web who have it working (although not sure what type of Mac they were using, but it was the built-in type, so should be more or less the same as the MacBook's camera).

    The one built in to the iMac, MacBook and MacBook Pro use a completely different chipset as the one in the normal iSight camera.

    For the built-in ones the driver is supplied, but for the external ones no driver does exists.


  • #6
    Mizu_Ger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭Mizu_Ger


    SystemError51 wrote:
    The one built in to the iMac, MacBook and MacBook Pro use a completely different chipset as the one in the normal iSight camera.

    For the built-in ones the driver is supplied, but for the external ones no driver does exists.

    So this means that mine should work (I have a MacBook). I burned a new drivers disk in OSX just in case the first one Boot Camp burned was didgy, but still can't get windows to load it. Windows sees the iSight in Device Manager, but something about the driver won't install (I have the latest MacBook firmware running too).


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