Q: After Upgrading to 10.9.2 Isight is not working

I'm glad I found your post. I, too, had DisplayLink installed, but none of the other things. But before deleting DisplayLink, I went out to check for newer drivers (http://www.displaylink.com/support/sla.php?fileid=102). They had one for Mavericks (I was still using the ML driver), so I installed it. Unfortunately, that didn't fix the issue, so I deleted the drivers and rebooted. Problem solved for now, but I will miss the extra display until a new driver comes along.

Thanks for sharing your fix!

I did  try everything still not working, reinstall fresh mavericks, still not working, however in safe mode the camera is detected. Common apple its so frustrating me..!!

Kixxore wrote:

 

I did  try everything still not working, reinstall fresh mavericks, still not working, however in safe mode the camera is detected. Common apple its so frustrating me..!!

If Safe Mode lets the camera work, then it's definitely an extension. Please double-check for any of the programs above, or anything else you may have installed that creates virtual displays.

@ Kixxore

Antonio Tejadais giving you good advice here.

Take a look at all of the extensions that are installed on your systems. To do that, go to (in the Apple menu) About This Mac => System Information => Extensions.

Click on the column header “Obtained from” to sort the column. Anything that is NOT from Apple is suspect. Look for anything that might somehow use the camera or sets up or modifies a display (monitor). That seems to be the common thread in all of the problems people are having. You may have installed something several years ago (and have forgotten about) that is the source of the problem.

I love all the info that people are posting , thought to begin with it was me. My issue is that I upgraded to snow leopard and did not have a problem, upgraded to  mavericks and did not have a problem, and now this update and all the problems start, I do not see this as my problem but apples , they ****** up. And if not then they are not doing their job. As far as I am concerned they should be fixing this and not us having to try and figure it out. My system has issues with calendar, iphoto, photo booth and maybe a few more that I have not discovered yet. These are their programs so what is up  with that. I am quite surprised because I have been running mac's for about 10 years and have had vary little problems and no problems until now with upgrades. The reason that I stuck with the mac was the low maintenance at least one of the main reasons. I am pretty disappointed that it has not been addressed by apple by now with so many people having problems. Anyways just my thoughts and opinion . Hope to see apple address this real soon

So your iSight camera is not working? (You didn't mention it) Your other issues would be better published in a new thread or otherwise things in this topic will become confused for those with the iSight issue

Pete

While you're at it, compare the kexts loaded too...

kextstat from a root shell or sudo the command.

To everyone who's still having trouble after uninstalling all the incompatible programs listed above. Please be sure to run the terminal command listed below and immediately restart.

timw321 wrote:

 

Don't give up yet. My camera didn't show up straight away. Photobooth wouldn't see it, Facetime wouldn't see it, Skype took ages to launch but finally did...and saw it. Then facetime saw it, and then Photobooth saw it....

 

But it wasn't immediate in my case.

 

Actually, thinking about it, running the below in Terminal and rebooting is what finally fixed it after removing all the offending programs for me:

 

sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions

 

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And then please write back whether doing this restored camera functionality.

Just to add to the above, the list of applications/drivers that cause the issues listed in the thread seem to be:

Air Display

AirParrot

Displaylink Drivers

iDisplay

Splashtop virtual display driver

ScreenRecycler

basically anything that creates virtual display

In my case I noticed Adobe Flash player / plug-in triggers ReportCrash of VDCAssistant error.
Anyone find same thing happening?

so we have to wait till 10.9.3 updates...

That just means that flash player was trying to access the camera. It's usually a driver loaded by VDCAssistant which crashes and the driver does not necessarily belong to flash. Otherwise we'd all be removing skype, facetime and photobooth. i'm using flash without problems after uninstalling my displaylink drivers so it's worth checking that you don't have any of these other programs installed.

The Flash plugin accesses the camera, so that's not surprising. (It should happen with any program that accesses the camera.)

Remove the drivers listed above and you should be good. Otherwise, use the instructions a few posts up and look for other suspect extensions.

I had the same problem, and following this advice, I removed non-Apple MSMVideoDevice.kext and MSMFrameBuffer.kext, sudo touched /System/Libray/Extensions, rebooted and iSight works again.

Perfect. Deleting these 2 extensions did it for me. Thanks!

I tried the sudo thing but it required a password which I don't have.

Rebooted and Skype works again.

same issue ... no camera

Apple - wake up !!

they introduced voice on face time :-) but took away camera :-))) this new apple politics?