The following steps allow you to have a clean support for Apple Built-in iSight on both PPC and intel Macintoshes. No kernelspace Apple driver loading ! * Install latest isight-firmware-tools. /!\ Configure --sysconfdir=/etc (autotools bug?) in order to have the udev rules properly installed. ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc && make && sudo make install * Get any AppleUSBVideoSupport from your Mac OS X partition and extract the firmware using ift-extract. ift-extract default output to /lib/firmware/isight.fw, so run as root : sudo ift-extract --apple-driver AppleUSBVideoSupport * Load the firmware manually or reboot sudo ift-load --firmware /lib/firmware/isight.fw Tested with gstreamer-properties, ekiga, cheese 0.2.3 (cheese 0.2.4 fails, 0.3 not tested).