Q: After Upgrading to 10.9.2 Isight is not working

Glad to know if helped your case @chatzki.

I think the general consensus here is that it is confirmed there will be issues with applications that install and need to access the video capabilities, just that there are a lot of such apps, so I'm sure there are bound to be a few not mentioned/encountered.  A few notable ones had already need mentioned (I.e. Air Parrot), and any other people who managed to solve their problems and listing down their experiences will help. :)

These instructions solved my problem. Is important to note that I had AirParrot installed and I have downloaded and run the uninstaller - this did NOT solve the problem.

I have tried other solutions, including resetting the PRAM, but after using these commands and restarting did solve the issue indeed.

Kudos to Frederic Cote1.

My machine is a Macbook Pro Santa Rosa (late 2007, Macbook 3,1) running Mavericks (10.9.2).

Thanks!

sorry for late response ,how do i fix that ?  do u think its from anyone of these??

Yeah, remove all starting with AV*

Open Terminal, issue the following:

sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AV*

I would also advise to update boot cache. Kext Utility may help. Reboot and check whether the cam's working.

Safe mode camera works,

facebook  video call camera works,

in skype if you want to change the profile picture camera works, but does not work on skype video call

facetime, photobooth no camera detected

other application, NO camera DETECTED !!

I tried

Fresh install mavericks

reset PRAM

unistall mirroring softwares( as some suggested in internet)

still cant figure out whats actually is the problem.

thnkx in advance

Post output of the command in Terminal:

ls /System/Library/Extensions

.

Same stuff as previous user had:

AVFrameBuffer.kext

AVVideoCard.kext

Remove them, download and run Kext Utility, reboot and enjoy.

And read before asking.

I don't have any AV extensions, never installed AirParrot or any other mirrors, Camera still keeps disappearing/appearing - mostly disappearing. 

Happy to post anything for help.  

I (believe) I have tried everything suggested - reinstalling mavericks, repairing disk permissions, PRAM reset. 

Would really appreciate any additional suggestions.

Thanks!

Thankx bro, it helped me out,, !! cheers.. 

chatzki wrote:

 

Same stuff as previous user had:

 

AVFrameBuffer.kext

AVVideoCard.kext

 

Remove them, download and run Kext Utility, reboot and enjoy.

 

 

lisagrice, send me your

ls /System/Library/Extension

command output.

[list removed]

Clean up the list you sent.

You have a different source of a problem. You've said that sometimes camera works, sometimes doesn't. I presume there must be hardware issue, since all the kexts you have are generally native Apple's ones. Try booting into safe mode. If your cam keeps misbehaving even there - welcome to Apple Service. One more test to be done, is to remove 3rd party kexts anyway, it's HP's in your case, though I hesitate that they can cause the issue.

sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/hp*

Message was edited by: chatzki

ok thanks.  Was hoping there was something easy

Hi

Up to today - 2-nd May there are NO solution for iSight issue, please confirm that

I am desperated - nothing work - I have no third part .kext, applications to remove (PRAM and other VOO-DOO's was done, ).

Just - Suddenly, one day iSight stoped work.

Is that any way to get (download) working Apple_iSight.kext file and make iSight Cam working again?

or there is nothing like this file in 10.9.2?

For those, who want and could help, pleas respond:

it is my .kext list:

greetings

Tom

ALF.kext

AMD2400Controller.kext

AMD2600Controller.kext

AMD3800Controller.kext

AMD4600Controller.kext

AMD4800Controller.kext

AMD5000Controller.kext

AMD6000Controller.kext

AMD7000Controller.kext

AMDFramebuffer.kext

AMDRadeonVADriver.bundle

AMDRadeonX3000.kext

AMDRadeonX3000GLDriver.bundle

AMDRadeonX4000.kext

AMDRadeonX4000GLDriver.bundle

AMDSupport.kext

ATIRadeonX2000.kext

ATIRadeonX2000GA.plugin

ATIRadeonX2000GLDriver.bundle

ATIRadeonX2000VADriver.bundle

ATTOCelerityFC.kext

ATTOExpressPCI4.kext

ATTOExpressSASHBA.kext

ATTOExpressSASHBA3.kext

ATTOExpressSASRAID.kext

Accusys6xxxx.kext

Apple16X50Serial.kext

AppleACPIPlatform.kext

AppleAHCIPort.kext

AppleAPIC.kext

AppleBMC.kext

AppleBacklight.kext

AppleBacklightExpert.kext

AppleBluetoothMultitouch.kext

AppleCameraInterface.kext

AppleEFIRuntime.kext

AppleFDEKeyStore.kext

AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless.kext

AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib.kext

AppleFWAudio.kext

AppleFileSystemDriver.kext

AppleGraphicsControl.kext

AppleGraphicsPowerManagement.kext

AppleHDA.kext

AppleHIDKeyboard.kext

AppleHIDMouse.kext

AppleHPET.kext

AppleHSSPIHIDDriver.kext

AppleHSSPISupport.kext

AppleHWAccess.kext

AppleHWSensor.kext

AppleIRController.kext

AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext

AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient.kext

AppleIntelFramebufferAzul.kext

AppleIntelFramebufferCapri.kext

AppleIntelHD3000Graphics.kext

AppleIntelHD3000GraphicsGA.plugin

AppleIntelHD3000GraphicsGLDriver.bundle

AppleIntelHD3000GraphicsVADriver.bundle

AppleIntelHD4000Graphics.kext

AppleIntelHD4000GraphicsGLDriver.bundle

AppleIntelHD4000GraphicsVADriver.bundle

AppleIntelHD5000Graphics.kext

AppleIntelHD5000GraphicsGLDriver.bundle

AppleIntelHD5000GraphicsVADriver.bundle

AppleIntelHDGraphics.kext

AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB.kext

AppleIntelHDGraphicsGA.plugin

AppleIntelHDGraphicsGLDriver.bundle

AppleIntelHDGraphicsVADriver.bundle

AppleIntelHSWVA.bundle

AppleIntelIVBVA.bundle

AppleIntelLpssDmac.kext

AppleIntelLpssGspi.kext

AppleIntelLpssSpiController.kext

AppleIntelMCEReporter.kext

AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB.kext

AppleIntelSNBVA.bundle

AppleKextExcludeList.kext

AppleKeyStore.kext

AppleKeyswitch.kext

AppleLPC.kext

AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext

AppleMCCSControl.kext

AppleMCEDriver.kext

AppleMCP89RootPortPM.kext

AppleMIDIFWDriver.plugin

AppleMIDIIACDriver.plugin

AppleMIDIRTPDriver.plugin

AppleMIDIUSBDriver.plugin

AppleMatch.kext

AppleMikeyHIDDriver.kext

AppleMobileDevice.kext

AppleMultitouchDriver.kext

ApplePlatformEnabler.kext

AppleRAID.kext

AppleRAIDCard.kext

AppleRTC.kext

AppleSDXC.kext

AppleSEP.kext

AppleSMBIOS.kext

AppleSMBusController.kext

AppleSMBusPCI.kext

AppleSMC.kext

AppleSMCLMU.kext

AppleSRP.kext

AppleSmartBatteryManager.kext

AppleStorageDrivers.kext

AppleThunderboltDPAdapters.kext

AppleThunderboltEDMService.kext

AppleThunderboltIP.kext

AppleThunderboltNHI.kext

AppleThunderboltPCIAdapters.kext

AppleThunderboltUTDM.kext

AppleTopCase.kext

AppleTyMCEDriver.kext

AppleUSBAudio.kext

AppleUSBDisplays.kext

AppleUSBEthernetHost.kext

AppleUSBMultitouch.kext

AppleUSBTopCase.kext

AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext

AppleVADriver.bundle

AppleWWANAutoEject.kext

AppleXsanFilter.kext

Apple_iSight.kext

AudioAUUC.kext

BootCache.kext

CellPhoneHelper.kext

CoreStorage.kext

DSACL.ppp

DSAuth.ppp

DVFamily.bundle

Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext

EAP-KRB.ppp

EAP-RSA.ppp

EAP-TLS.ppp

GeForce.kext

GeForceGA.plugin

GeForceGLDriver.bundle

GeForceTesla.kext

GeForceTeslaGLDriver.bundle

GeForceTeslaVADriver.bundle

GeForceVADriver.bundle

IO80211Family.kext

IOACPIFamily.kext

IOAHCIFamily.kext

IOATAFamily.kext

IOAVBFamily.kext

IOAccelerator2D.plugin

IOAcceleratorFamily.kext

IOAcceleratorFamily2.kext

IOAudioFamily.kext

IOBDStorageFamily.kext

IOBluetoothFamily.kext

IOBluetoothHIDDriver.kext

IOCDStorageFamily.kext

IODVDStorageFamily.kext

IOFireWireAVC.kext

IOFireWireFamily.kext

IOFireWireIP.kext

IOFireWireSBP2.kext

IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport.kext

IOGraphicsFamily.kext

IOHDIXController.kext

IOHIDFamily.kext

IONDRVSupport.kext

IONetworkingFamily.kext

IOPCIFamily.kext

IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext

IOReportFamily.kext

IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily.kext

IOSCSIParallelFamily.kext

IOSMBusFamily.kext

IOSerialFamily.kext

IOStorageFamily.kext

IOStreamFamily.kext

IOSurface.kext

IOThunderboltFamily.kext

IOTimeSyncFamily.kext

IOUSBAttachedSCSI.kext

IOUSBFamily.kext

IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext

IOUserEthernet.kext

IOVideoFamily.kext

JMicronATA.kext

L2TP.ppp

LittleSnitch.kext

NVDAGF100Hal.kext

NVDAGK100Hal.kext

NVDANV50HalTesla.kext

NVDAResman.kext

NVDAResmanTesla.kext

NVDAStartup.kext

NVSMU.kext

OSvKernDSPLib.kext

PPP.kext

PPPSerial.ppp

PPPoE.ppp

PPTP.ppp

Quarantine.kext

Radius.ppp

SMARTLib.plugin

SMCMotionSensor.kext

Sandbox.kext

System.kext

TMSafetyNet.kext

acfs.kext

acfsctl.kext

autofs.kext

cd9660.kext

cddafs.kext

corecrypto.kext

exfat.kext

iPodDriver.kext

mcxalr.kext

msdosfs.kext

ntfs.kext

pthread.kext

smbfs.kext

triggers.kext

udf.kext

vecLib.kext

webcontentfilter.kext

webdav_fs.kext