I-Sight Drivers for Parallels/Fusion

[Eagle101]

Hello All,

I have just purchased a new Mac for my brother and his family. They do alot of MSN video conferencing, and for now there is not even one good software that can handle that (amsn and mercury SUCK). I am planing to install parallels or fusion (he doesnt like the idea of bootcamp) on his new mac and use msn messenger that way, but will the isight camera work? If not, is there any chance to make it work? If yes, hows the quality?

Thank you very much

[RaisinCain]

The new bootcamp and parallels seem to do alright with the new driver.

[Quillz]

Skype apparently fully supports video-conferencing, and is free for local-to-local calling. I've never tried it, but yeah, it is supposed to work.

[Eagle101]

Skype apparently fully supports video-conferencing, and is free for local-to-local calling. I've never tried it, but yeah, it is supposed to work.

Like i said, they are only using MSN and thats it. They dont know better and are not looking to switch.

The new bootcamp and parallels seem to do alright with the new driver.

OK, but will the new parallels / Fusion work with the built-in camera fine or do i have to download and install special drivers???

Thanks

[WindowsOnIMac]

Like i said, they are only using MSN and thats it. They dont know better and are not looking to switch.

OK, but will the new parallels / Fusion work with the built-in camera fine or do i have to download and install special drivers???

Thanks

I really don't know, since I use Boot Camp Assistant rather than a virtualizer (Vista Home Premium has no license for virtualization).

I do know a couple of things, however:

1) The iSight driver for Vista currently has no iSight enabler provided with it yet, so the iSight camera will not work in Vista, even though the driver installs just fine, and the Device Manager states that the camera is working properly. I use a Logitech QuickCam 5000 Pro, anyway.

2) The iSight camera does work in XP, however, and appears as it should in Control Panel->Scanners & Cameras. This is NOT true for Vista, however.

3) Since Apple is the one who is supposed to provide Windows drivers for their own hardware, we're all waiting on Apple to get this fixed sometimes soon. Don't expect Microsoft to provide drivers, since they are not in the business of writing device drivers. If Apple fails to provide a driver set which works properly, we are S.O.L. until Apple steps up to the plate.

Donald McDaniel