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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79887-isight-mic-not-working-with-firewire-card/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanB91 Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79887-isight-mic-not-working-with-firewire-card/#findComment-566175 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79887-isight-mic-not-working-with-firewire-card/#findComment-726297 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79887-isight-mic-not-working-with-firewire-card/#findComment-732556 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79887-isight-mic-not-working-with-firewire-card/#findComment-757030 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79887-isight-mic-not-working-with-firewire-card/#findComment-763510 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79887-isight-mic-not-working-with-firewire-card/#findComment-764218 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79887-isight-mic-not-working-with-firewire-card/#findComment-773125 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79887-isight-mic-not-working-with-firewire-card/#findComment-1110860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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