Canon Elura 100 iChat 4.0.8 connection problems

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Canon Elura 100 iChat 4.0.8 connection problems

I'm on the road in CA and using my niece's Elura 100. I can get it to connect to my Powerbook 1.67Ghz fine (iMovie recognizes the Firewire connection) but I can't get iChat to recognize the camera. It says that it's in use by another application, something I understand is common with iChat.

What do I need to do to use the Canon Elura 100 via Firewire with my Powerbook? I'm running 10.5.8, have restarted the machine and the app several times with no luck.

Thanks!

Dual G4 MDD 1Ghz, 2 Gb RAM, PowerBook 1.67Ghz 2Gb RAM, Mac OS X (10.5.8), HP w2207h 22" monitor, ATI Radeon 9600 Mac/PC Edition

Posted on Mar 10, 2010 9:06 PM

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Mar 11, 2010 1:21 PM in response to Phillip Ramirez

Hi,

Can you go to the Apple Icon and use the ALT key while selecting the first Item (About this Mac will change to System Profiler) ?

In System Profiler open the reveal triangles to Hardware > Firewire.
I take it that the Camera shows here ?

If so try try a PRAM reset.
Shut down the computer.
Restart it holding down APPLE(or ⌘) ALT(⌥)+PR Keys until you have heard three Start Up Bongs.

If that does not work delete com.apple.ichat.plist itself (In your Home Folder/Library/Preferences) and restart iChat.

WARNING deleting this .plist loses any and all settings changed from defaults in the iChat Preferences
Font style, Colour, Balloon/IM colour, Incoming overrides, Saved Transcripts, Menu Bar icon, Alerts settings and so on,
AND any Saved Status Messages.

The .plist does hold the info about which camera it can "See".

9:21 PM Thursday; March 11, 2010

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