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Reverse engineered Linux driver for the FacetimeHD (Broadcom 1570) PCIe webcam
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Error installing Ubuntu 18.04 Macbook Pro model A1708 #202

Closed JohnDeeBDD closed 4 years ago

JohnDeeBDD commented 4 years ago

Fresh install from USB. I overwrote the MacOS. Was that dumb?

Trying the accepted answer here https://askubuntu.com/questions/990218/camera-not-working-on-macbook-pro I ran

sudo apt-get install git sudo apt-get install curl xzcat cpio git clone https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd-firmware.git cd facetimehd-firmware

xzcat doesn't seam to be working, so I ran:

sudo apt-get install xz-utils

Then I did a search and replace in the Makefile replacing xzcat with xz-utils

make

I get:

Checking dependencies for driver download... /bin/cpio Makefile:34: recipe for target 'AppleCameraInterface' failed make: *** [AppleCameraInterface] Error 1

JohnDeeBDD commented 4 years ago

The final analyzsis was that the binary wasn't being moved into /lib/firmware/facetimehd/. It looks like the installer couldn't move it, when I manually did it then sudo modprobe facetimehd and it worked!