Hmm, I wonder if it works with VMWare. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Bill Bogstad <<a href="mailto:bogstad@pobox.com">bogstad@pobox.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Gary C Martin<<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>> wrote: > Hi Caroline, > > On 3 Sep 2009, at 02:40, Caroline Meeks wrote: > >> Other Mac users...are you having this problem to? Does anyone know >> the root cause? >> >> The GPA is very excited to use the built in cameras with their >> macbooks. I'm pretty sure this worked on my iMac a few months >> ago. I remember someone fixed the video quality for it. > > I've had no luck on my MacBookPro, it does recognise the camera and > activate it, but just produces a black image. Haven't tested with a > very recent SoaS, so I should add that to the list of things to test. </div></div>I think that you might be talking about two different environments here. The GPA teachers are apparently using VirtualBox which provides an emulated PC hardware environment for many different hardware/OS platforms. I'm guessing that Gary is talking about booting SoaS directly on Apple Intel based hardware. I use VirtualBox under Linux and there is no camera support in the emulated environment. There is support for accessing USB devices from within guest machines. However, I found the following thread on their support forum: <a href="http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18695" target="_blank">http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18695</a> which seems to indicate that the VB developers are thinking about doing something about fixing their USB code to support USB based cameras, but there was nothing there as of June of this year. Bill Bogstad </blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax