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diff --git a/system/isight-firmware-tools/README.SLACKWARE b/system/isight-firmware-tools/README.SLACKWARE new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b7c09616ec --- /dev/null +++ b/system/isight-firmware-tools/README.SLACKWARE @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +These are the tools to extract the iSight firmware. Once you've built and installed isight-firmware tools, use ift-extract to grab the firmware from the Apple driver and put it in /lib/firmware. + +Note: You must be logged in as root to do this! + +On my MacBook running Mavericks, the command is: + +ift-extract -a /macdrive/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBVideoSupport.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleUSBVideoSupport + +Once that's done, you should have the file: + +/lib/firmware/isight.fw + +If so, reboot and you're in business. (I'm not sure you hafta reboot, but it can't hurt!) + +For other MacOS versions, just mount your Mac HFS+ partition something like: + +mount /dev/sda2 /macdrive + +(Note: For this, the directory /macdrive must exist!) + +To locate the Mac partition, use: fdisk -l /dev/sda . . . the MacOS partition should look something like: + +/dev/sda2 409640 724306927 361948644 af HFS / HFS+ + +Once the Mac OS partition is mounted, you can locate the Apple iSight driver using: find /macdrive -iname AppleUSBVideoSupport + +Yet another note: I'm using the huge kernel, which has the HFS filesystem driver. I don't know if it's included with the generic kernels or not. |