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 I haven't done this process in a while, but [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleiSight|it's pretty well-documented on Ubuntu's wiki]]. I'll repeat how I do it though. I haven't done this process in a while, but [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleiSight|it's pretty well-documented on Ubuntu's wiki]]. I'll repeat how I do it though.
  
-    * Mount your OS X drive. Remember the path to it.+    * Mount your OS X drive/partition. Remember the path to it.
     * Install the isight-firmware-tools package:     * Install the isight-firmware-tools package:
       * ''sudo apt-get install isight-firmware-tools''       * ''sudo apt-get install isight-firmware-tools''
-    * It'll walk you through the process. It will ask you to point to your driver file. Change the beginning of the path, which defaults to /MacOSX, to point to your OS X partition you mounted. In my case it was "/media/doug/Macintosh HD". So I replaced ''/MacOSX''  with ''/media/doug/Macintosh HD''.+    * It'll walk you through the process. It will ask you to point to your driver file. Change the beginning of the path, which defaults to /MacOSX, to point to your OS X partition you mounted. In my case it was "/media/doug/Macintosh HD". So I replaced ''/MacOSX''   with ''/media/doug/Macintosh HD''.
     * If all goes well, it'll extract the firmware and tell you: "The iSight firmware has been extracted successfully."     * If all goes well, it'll extract the firmware and tell you: "The iSight firmware has been extracted successfully."
     * Shut down your computer completely, then boot it back up. Hopefully the iSight will work after that!     * Shut down your computer completely, then boot it back up. Hopefully the iSight will work after that!
ubuntu/macbook_pro_ubuntu_isight.1407805645.txt.gz · Last modified: 2014/08/11 18:07 by doug