Macbook Pro 15 Haswell/Retina 11.1 Webcam/iSight Does Not Work (Ubuntu 13.10)

[Krzysztof Janowicz]

On the new Macbook Pro 15 Haswell/Retina 11.1 Webcam/iSight does not work (Ubuntu 13.10). I tried installing isight-firmware-tools and selected the right firmware. The installation was successful but the camera does not work. Gstreamer-properties reports that /dev/video0 is missing.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Craig Magina (craig.magina)]

I can report that this issue also occurs on the 13" Macbook Pro 11,1.

[Chris Kankiewicz (phlak)]

I don't even see the camera with 'lsusb':

$ sudo lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05ac:8406 Apple, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 011: ID 05ac:8289 Apple, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 05ac:0304 Apple, Inc. Optical USB Mouse [Mitsumi]
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 05ac:0220 Apple, Inc. Aluminum Keyboard (ANSI)
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0bc2:3320 Seagate RSS LLC SRD00F2 [Expansion Desktop Drive]
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ac:1006 Apple, Inc. Hub in Aluminum Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 05ac:0262 Apple, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 051d:0002 American Power Conversion Uninterruptible Power Supply
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

[psanford (pms-mail)]

The camera doesn't show up with `lsusb` because it uses a PCIe interface in the new Pro Retina models. In `lspci` the device looks like this:

02:00.0 Multimedia controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 1570

It doesn't look like there are any linux drivers for this webcam yet.

[Dharm (dharmveer-jha)]

Hi,
Have tried installing Ubuntu12.04,13.10 on Macbook Pro 11.1 but in-built camera doesn't work at all .cheese and similar apps reports /dev/video0 is missing .

Have try to mount the HD and got iSight.fm as well using isight-firmware-tools successfully but no luck ,please suggest how we can fix this issue .

Thanks
Dharm

[Dharm (dharmveer-jha)]

On the other hand External WebCam works :)

[Andreas Henriksson (andreas-fatal)]

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71131

[rebroad (rebroad)]

What is happening regarding this? Is it being progressed?

[Krzysztof Janowicz (janowicz)]

Not that I would know of :-(.

[benhuan (benhuan)]

ubuntu 14.04.1 MacBook Pro 11.3
also have this problem

[medb (medb)]

Ubuntu 15.04 has the same problem

[Ivo Xavier (ivoxavier)]

Same happens on the macbook pro retina mid 2014, both 14.04.2 and 15.04.

[Seth (sethniels)]

As mentioned in the bugzilla link above, there is no driver for the new PCIe camera, but someone is working on it. It is a slow difficult reverse engineering job.

To find out more about the effort to resolve this, go to https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie. Or if you want to see what you can do to help, go straight to https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie/wiki#how-can-i-help.

[Bryan Hundven (bryanhundven)]

https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie

Works for me.