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Diffstat (limited to 'system/isight-firmware-tools')
-rw-r--r-- | system/isight-firmware-tools/README | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | system/isight-firmware-tools/README.SLACKWARE | 27 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | system/isight-firmware-tools/isight-firmware-tools.SlackBuild | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | system/isight-firmware-tools/isight-firmware-tools.info | 2 |
4 files changed, 35 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/system/isight-firmware-tools/README b/system/isight-firmware-tools/README index 10bd0aafe5..7fa13bbcba 100644 --- a/system/isight-firmware-tools/README +++ b/system/isight-firmware-tools/README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -isight-firmware-tools (utilities to axtract isight firmware from Apple driver +isight-firmware-tools (utilities to extract isight firmware from Apple driver for use with Linux kernel) This project provide tools to manipulate firmware for Built-in iSight 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. diff --git a/system/isight-firmware-tools/isight-firmware-tools.SlackBuild b/system/isight-firmware-tools/isight-firmware-tools.SlackBuild index a8cc90756a..a464313ec0 100644 --- a/system/isight-firmware-tools/isight-firmware-tools.SlackBuild +++ b/system/isight-firmware-tools/isight-firmware-tools.SlackBuild @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ PRGNAM=isight-firmware-tools VERSION=${VERSION:-1.6} -BUILD=${BUILD:-1} +BUILD=${BUILD:-2} TAG=${TAG:-_SBo} if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then @@ -64,10 +64,10 @@ tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION chown -R root:root . find -L . \ - \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o -perm 511 \) \ - -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \ - \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \ - -exec chmod 644 {} \; + \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 \ + -o -perm 511 \) -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \ + \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \ + -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \; CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \ CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \ @@ -98,8 +98,7 @@ find $PKG -name perllocal.pod \ | xargs rm -f mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION -cp -a AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog HOWTO INSTALL NEWS README \ - $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION +cp -a AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog HOWTO INSTALL NEWS README $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild mkdir -p $PKG/install diff --git a/system/isight-firmware-tools/isight-firmware-tools.info b/system/isight-firmware-tools/isight-firmware-tools.info index 9f4be0b149..9c0e9d61e2 100644 --- a/system/isight-firmware-tools/isight-firmware-tools.info +++ b/system/isight-firmware-tools/isight-firmware-tools.info @@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ DOWNLOAD_x86_64="" MD5SUM_x86_64="" REQUIRES="" MAINTAINER="Stu Reedy" -EMAIL="stureedy@smapcop.net" +EMAIL="stureedy@spamcop.net" |