DanB91 Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 i just bought a pci firewire card for my computer. when i plug in my isight the video plays fine but when i try to speak into the mic, no sound is being picked up. the computer reads the mic fine and the mic works on my ibook fine. plz help. i have Kalyway EFI 10.5. thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sleepy2 Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 anyone? I have the same problem with one of my machines. I have a P35-DS3L that just will not work with the iSight microphone and I can't figure it out. The mic works fine on my 945-GCMX machine. They both have the exact same firewire card and I even swapped them out to see if one of the cards was bad but that's not it. I wish I could find someone with an answer but I'm guessing there aren't a whole lot of people building Hackintoshes that also have a real firewire iSight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakerzdosen Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Well, I can't really tell you what I did to get mine working, but here's as much as I can tell you for sure: I couldn't get my isight working. At all. It showed up in system profiler, but iChat would always tell me that it was in use by another app. I've got an IP35-pro with an e8400. I wasn't really worried about getting onboard audio working as I have an external USB "sound card" (rp-u100) that I use as well as a USB mic. However, it became apparent that I was going to have to get output working to get the sound working with my kvm. (I'd switch away - effectively yanking the usb device - and then couldn't get sound working until I rebooted.) I guess because there was no sound device to switch to, it would have issues... So, I finally found a solution that worked - and that was running AppleHDAPatcherv1.20 with the proper codec. Once I rebooted, both video and the mic from the isight are now working in both Skype and iChat. iGlasses even works fine. (my rp-u100 still doesn't work though it's showing up as selectable, but my usb mic does work as expected. Go figure.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerhold Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Hello all, I have exactly the same problem here. My iSight is working on my MacMini as exspected - video and mic, but on my P35k - video is fine, iSicht mic shows in SystemPreferences, but no activity from my mic inside the Sound Preferences. I use the onboard firewire. Has anyone an idea what to do in order to get the iSight mic working? Gerhold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepy2 Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Hello all, I have exactly the same problem here. My iSight is working on my MacMini as exspected - video and mic, but on my P35k - video is fine, iSicht mic shows in SystemPreferences, but no activity from my mic inside the Sound Preferences. I use the onboard firewire. Has anyone an idea what to do in order to get the iSight mic working? Gerhold I finally got the iSight mic working on my P35-DS3L. I thought I'd try an NEC based card instead of this VIA card that still works on my 945-GCMX machine. It's a PCI-E Syba 1394a card, model SD-PEX-NEC4F.(newegg) I don't know if it's the different chipset or being PCI-E instead of PCI or whatever but I'm glad it works now. I forgot to mention in my previous post that I was having trouble mounting firewire drives with my old firewire card on the P35 and didn't have any trouble with the same card on the 945 machine. I can now also mount and use firewire drives on the new card as well as gaining full use of the iSight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerhold Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Oh, sounds good, so I will try to use the iSight with an additional firewire card maybe it solves the problem and mic is then working as expected. I will give feedback after the try. Gerhold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerhold Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 So problem solved I finally got the iSight mic working on my P35-DS3L. I thought I'd try an NEC based card instead of this VIA card that still works on my 945-GCMX machine. It's a PCI-E Syba 1394a card, model SD-PEX-NEC4F.(newegg) I don't know if it's the different chipset or being PCI-E instead of PCI or whatever but I'm glad it works now. I forgot to mention in my previous post that I was having trouble mounting firewire drives with my old firewire card on the P35 and didn't have any trouble with the same card on the 945 machine. I can now also mount and use firewire drives on the new card as well as gaining full use of the iSight. Thank you sleepy2, just changing the firewire card to a NEC based card (InLine: "Firewire IEEE 1394a Karte" about 7€ ) and all inclusive mic is working now fine. Gerhold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobhansen Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 i just bought a pci firewire card for my computer. when i plug in my isight the video plays fine but when i try to speak into the mic, no sound is being picked up. the computer reads the mic fine and the mic works on my ibook fine. plz help. i have Kalyway EFI 10.5. thanx Same here, is there a special kext for audio over firewire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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