macbook early 2009 camera not working

Hi John,

"Alternative snow leopard fix" from http://www.codium.co.nz/isight_fix/ fixed my internal iSight camera.

Only difference from that description is that I force quit the "Kext Helper b7" after easy installing the AppleUSBVideoSupport.kext.

Fix worked for Mavericks 10.9.5 (upgrade from 10.9) and OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 (clean install).

Tested with FaceTime, Skype, and Photo Boot.

My system:

MacBook: (13-inch, Early 2009)

Processor: 2 GHz Intel Core Duo

Memory: 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 245 MB

john rat wrote:

How come my early 2009 macbook camera is not working?

Because something is wrong.

If you want to fix it, one of these will do the trick:

(1) If restarting your Mac doesn't fix the problem,

(2) use Apple's http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090.

(BTW - The Troubleshooting article calls the camera an "iSight". However, after the article was published, Apple has changed the built-in camera's name on newer Macs from "iSight" to "FaceTime" and then to "FaceTime HD." Regardless of the name of your built-in camera, the same info and troubleshooting applies.)

Be sure to test more than one Apple app in more than one user account. Do NOT use the "Guest" account for this test. If you do not have more than one user account for the testing, create a new one now. If you need help, how to do it is explained in http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201754.

A "Standard" user account is all you need for testing.

(3) If your cam won't work properly even with Apple apps, use OS X Recovery to completely reinstall your Mac OS. Don't bother testing Skype or other third-party apps until you have your camera working with Apple apps.

(4) If none of the above suggestions resolve your trouble, contact Apple or an Apple-Authorized Service Provider to have your Mac professionally serviced.

Message was edited by: EZ Jim

Mac OSX 10.10.4