Upgraded to Lion, now isight camera "not connected"

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Upgraded to Lion, now isight camera "not connected"

I have an iMac G5 with isight on it. I upgraded to Lion and now Photobooth, Facetime and iChat say "there is no camera connected". Ive restarted my computer numerous times, and in safe mode. I've unplugged the external hard drive. The camera is not listed in System Profiler either. I've force quit applications and followed instructions to shut down using CMD, OPT, ESC. Anyone have any other advise, or having the same issue?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Oct 14, 2011 9:45 AM

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Answer 1

EZ Jim

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Oct 15, 2011 6:26 AM in response to tessafromtheblock

Lion will not run on any G5 Mac: http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html

G5 Macs do not meet minimum System Requirements for Lion (OS X 10.7)

You will need to retreat to Leopard or earlier: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3759

I believe Leopard's latest version is Mac OS X 10.5.8 at this time.

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Answer 2

Oct 15, 2011 7:37 AM in response to EZ Jim

I guess I have the 17 inch iMac core duo... always thought that was the G5, don't know why. Anyway, I have lion running and everything else is great, just the camera function isn't "there". May just have to take it into the Apple Store.

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Answer 3

EZ Jim

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Oct 15, 2011 11:33 AM in response to tessafromtheblock

Thanks for the new info. However, CoreDuo is not enough per

10.7 SysReqmts: http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html

How to be certain of your iMac's identity:

http://www.apple.com/support/imac/

( > About this Mac will tell you what processor you have.)

If you really have Lion running on your Mac, your system

obviously meets minimum requirements. Here are my best

suggestions for your camera problem:

• If Apple's http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090

suggestions do not help you, continue with the following.

• Use Disk Utility to repair permissions and then

download and apply the 10.7.2 Combo Update:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1459

• Repair permissions again immediately following the system restart

that completes the Combo update.

The Combo version of updates can sometimes correct

strange problems like yours.

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Answer 4

Oct 18, 2011 6:30 AM in response to EZ Jim

thanks for the info.. at least the camera is working on my facetime. still not on my photobooth, but i don't use that too much.

i have the core 2 duo, forgot to put in the 2 above. just made it in terms of being able to upgrade to lion.

thank you again!

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Answer 5

EZ Jim

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Oct 18, 2011 5:00 PM in response to tessafromtheblock

You're welcome! (and thanks for the ✓, too!)

I would try the Combo Update mentioned above to see if it will fix Photo Booth.

If you still have problems with Photo Booth but not on other apps after the Combo, try Lion's Recovery feature http://www.apple.com/ macosx/recovery/ to see if it can get the alll your apps working.

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