[Fahrenheit]

Hmm,

I turn on Photobooth, and instead of seeing my pretty self, I see a green screen. When I take a photo, look at effects, everything is just green. First time it happened, just pressed the shutter and I got about two normal frames, in very slow, before it stopped showing anything. Then I try again, and nothing. Try and take a photo- a little green polaroid comes out.

Damn.





Edit: Here is an image of it happening:

[Brad]

Take the green Post-it Note off of the camera hole!

[Fahrenheit]

Great. After a restart, the camera won't even restart. When I open PhotoBooth it just has a grey window.

But half the time it says:

[turtle]

I had the happen once, it was either iMovie or QT Pro thinking it was going to record using the iSight since it wasn't in sure otherwise.

[Fahrenheit]

Well no other applications are running at the moment.

[chucker]

Originally Posted by Farenheit Great. After a restart, the camera won't even restart. When I open PhotoBooth it just has a grey window.

Try shutting the computer down, then booting it again. The iSight reacts differently based on whether a reboot or a shutdown has occurred.

Has this happened to you before the 10.4.8 update?

[Fahrenheit]

No hasnt happened before the update.

I just restarted, as well as a PRAM refresh thingy.

[Fahrenheit]

Now Photobooth is doing all kinds of crazy things, like not starting, not responding, sitting there with the little arrow underneath it in the dock, but not doing anything. Garh!

[Fahrenheit]

Righto Chaps. Restarted. I tried the iSight in ComicLife (never really noticed it before, looks cool...) and the iSight was working in the capture mode on that.

Then I tried PhotoBooth, fearful for my life. And it worked. Huh. Weird.

Thanks for the help guys,

for anyone who has come across this issue and is searching:

Restart.
Restart again
Reset the PRAM (Cmd+Opt+ P+R on restart chime)
Try it in ComicLife.
Continue Guessing.

[Fahrenheit]

Update: 2 mins later.

Seems to be an issue with my printer. I only started using that this evening, and that is when I most recently used iSight. I unplug my printer - works. Plug it back again: Frame rate goes down and iSight goes green.

How the heck are these two connected?

[Kickaha]

iSight is on a USB bus internally.

Make sure the iSight and printer drivers are up to date. Possibly a PPC driver for the printer triggering Rosetta, and causing issues with the USB handler?

[Fahrenheit]

Cheers, K, downloading the driver now. I just plugged it in earlier and it sensed it automatically, so I guess it would have been some problem with my laziness

[Kickaha]

That *worked*?!? Holy crap, it was a total shot in the dark.

Cool.