2006-12-07

Green screen of death of the iSight

Lately my Core 2 Duo 20" iMac was having trouble with the embedded iSight camera: in Photo Booth was showing just a green screen.
I knew it was not an hardware problem because skype could use the camera without problems, but no joy with any of the apple apps: Photo Booth, iChat, iMovie. They all showed the green screen.
After searching on the Internet I found several suggestions pointing to resetting the SMC.
I tried that and, lo and behold, iSight works again! Woo Hoo!