Re: [Mactel-linux-users] iSight of MacBook Pro need the firmware?

[Nobuhiro I. <he...@t-...>]

HI,

Thank you for your comment.

On Sat, 24 May 2008 06:14:14 +0000
"Justin Mattock" <jus...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> Hello; from what I've experienced using macbook-isight-firmware-loader
> seemed to work up until 2.6.24,(if I can remember correctly)
> Then for some reason wasn't able to find the firmware, then after some
> help, and some work I was able to get the isight on the macbook pro
> working with uvcvideo and ift-load, just make sure you have the rules
> set in udev for the proper usb address, as for the firmware
> mounting the OSX partition and then extracting the firmware worked for
> me. As for not having to use the firmware
> I'm not too sure, I guess if a module was created with the firmware
> already inside the code!!!

Yes, the driver for old iSight also had the version with the firmware among drivers. 
However, I think that the version supported only initial Macbook and Macbook Pro. 
However, he might be handling the old driver. 

Thank you for advice. 
  Nobuhiro

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Nobuhiro Iwamatsu