Thread: Acer Aspire 6920G, Acery Crystal Eye Webcam, CNF7027 Chicony problems

Hi All,

I have succesfully installed MacOSX 10.6.7 and 10.7.3 on my Acer Aspire 6920G, everything is working OK except Wifi (I'll solve that with an osx compatible usb stick) and the webcam, the problem however, the cam is working in 10.6.7 but I have problems with Lion. First it worked! In Skype and FaceTime, but now it doesn't no more. I used this pack to make it work :

http://3rr0rists.net/macintosh/snow-leo ... 6920g.html

I immediately created a backup of my OSX when the cam was working, and I have successfully placed it back, and the cam worked But now it doesn't work anymore, I have rewritten the backup and still it doesn't work, the webcam does work fine in windows however.

On another site I read that sometimes it is working and sometimes it is not,

Aspire 6920G

Acer CrystalEye Webcam: Recognized by OSX as a USB webcam, however it only seems to be working intermittantly. When it does work, it works very well, however on occasion it will only display a blank image. Rebooting sometimes brings it back to life.

source:HCL 10.6.2/Portables - OSx86

But I haven't got that experience, I think something somehow got corrupted. This also happened with my PS2 driver when I installed the my hack package from the link above, I simply replaced the next, ran Kext Utility and it worked again, strangely enough, the files in the backup couldn't be corrupted as well.The webcam always seems to be working in OSX 10.6.7, I would have to double check that(probably sometime this week, I erased the OSX10.6.7 installation, everything was working in the new version, still have a backup though), but the question is, what files are the webcam drivers. I assume it's a kext or several? I want to transfer those files from my 10.6.7 installation to my OSX 10.7.3 installation.

I also took out the power, the battery (even disconnected the bios battery, cause I also had to do this sometimes during the osx installation, it screwed up my bios ) but even this did not work.

So what files are the webcam drivers for osx? I also tried macam and some other stuff I could find, nothing worked,

System Info gives me this about the cam:

CNF7017:

Product ID: 0xb044
Vendor ID: 0x04f2 (Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Version: 11.06
Serial Number: SN0001
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.
Location ID: 0xfd600000 / 2
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 500


please someone help me out, it's driving me nuts

Damian

p.s.

Also my Apple key (left alt) suddenly isn't working as it should, when I press paste I get √ symbol

Please, don`t make double post`s...

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