Q: Early 2009 iMac: iSight camera stopped after 10.9.2 update
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Mar 14, 2014 6:19 PMby MikeyPD,Thank you for replying. I did most of those things. Then I googled and did ine thing I skipped. I appreciate your help. Its odd because if it was total hardware failure the logicoard would not detect the camera at all ut when I check...the system detects it via the USB bus. Its not not responding.
I am thinking hardware failure perhaps. But I am still in the early stages of diagnosis.
I am more than willing for suggestion. I am going to do another SMU reset to be safe .Thanks to anyone that helps out.
-Mikeyyyyy
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Mar 15, 2014 8:32 AMby EZ Jim,MikeyPD wrote:... I did most of those things....
Do ALL unless other suggestions in iSight camera failure after OS X 10.9 Mavericks update helps you.
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Mar 22, 2014 6:02 AMby lastday,Hi.
After following all the proposals on this post and others found on Internet,
the issue was still there for my iMac (24" early 2009, OS 10.9.2) and its integrated iSight.
I tried to uninstall any AirDisplay, AirServer, AirParrot, AirWhatEverIFound ...
(even if I don't remember that I installed them).
But no impact, iSight still not found (but working in Safe Mode, so no Hardware issue) !
So based on all the posts about 3rd party extensions, I went in "System Info" listing Extensions,
looking for the one that were loaded.
I found ScreenRecyclerDriver from unknonw source.
So here is what I did :
- In Finder, open "/System/Library" folder
- Create a folder named "Extension (Off)"
- Copy the file "ScreenRecyclerDriver.kext" from folder "Extension" to folder "Extension (Off)"
- Delete the file "ScreenRecyclerDriver.kext" from folder "Extension"
- Restart iMac.
And YYYYYYEEEEESSSS, iSight is agin found by Photo Booth, FaceTime and Skype.
And no more crash of the famous "VDCAssistant".
I don't know where "ScreenRecyclerDriver" come from, but I found the troublemaker (for my iMac).
I hope it will also help someone else
Lastday
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Mar 22, 2014 8:02 AMby EZ Jim,lastday wrote: ... I don't know where "ScreenRecyclerDriver" come from, ...
It was created when someone installed ScreenRecycler on your system.
ScreenRecycler is a third-party add-on. ScreenRecycler system requirements show the OS X 10.8 release version is still in beta. It is possible that you have updated your Mac OS but not yet found a compatible version of ScreenRecycler.
ScreenRecycler is also mentioned in multiple other Apple Discussions problem topics including these:
Loose all logins with ScreenRecyclerDriver: Apple Support Communities
Safari won't open - crashes immediately: Apple Support Communities
Kernal Panic after mountain lion install: Apple Support Communities
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