Edit Section: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Human Beans

!!! Macbookpro Laptop Penguinbookpro

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS + MacOSX 1.5 + Win XP Pro, on a MacBookPro 5.5 laptop. A.k.a.: "((Penguinbookpro))"

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!!!!# Add iSight webcam driver

Taken from: http://askubuntu.com/a/118201

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Install some basic tool to handle the Driver (don't worry about the path to the driver, sinc eyou'll provide the driver itself in a later step).

Run this command in a terminal:

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sudo apt-get install isight-firmware-tools

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Skip the prompt to immediately load the driver file.

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cd ~

# Download AppleUSBVideoSupport driver file (e.g. dl.getdropbox.com/u/332246/AppleUSBVideoSupport) and place it at your home folder ~

wget http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/332246/AppleUSBVideoSupport

sudo cp AppleUSBVideoSupport /lib/firmware/

sudo ift-extract -a /lib/firmware/AppleUSBVideoSupport

sudo nano /etc/default/acpi-support

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Find MODULES and make it MODULES="isight_usb".

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    lsusb | grep -Po '(?<=:)(\d+)(?=.*iSight)'

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This outputs the product ID of your specific iSight USB device. Remember this number. Mine is 8507. The default Ubuntu driver seems to be hardcoded for 8300, which is a problem.

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sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/isight.rules

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Add (and be sure to replace the "8507" with your product ID.):

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ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="05ac", SYSFS{idProduct}=="8507", RUN+="/usr/lib/udev/ift-load --firmware /lib/firmware/isight.fw"

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    Shutdown/poweroff (not reboot or restart).

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    Boot again the computer.

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If you don't have Cheese yet, install it. Launch cheese program to test the webcam.

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    sudo apt-get install cheese; cheese

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By this time, your webcam should be working nicely. :-)

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