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iSight, Firewire Cable and D830


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First of all, kexts usually have meaningful names... Eg: '80211xxx' obviously relates to Ethernet/networking, 'ATIRadeonX1000' obviously relates to ATI Radeon X1000 series graphics cards, 'xxxPS2xxx' obviously relates to keyboards and mice, 'IOATAxxx' obviously relates to disk controllers, etc. If you know ziltch about computers/IT technology, you're up for a challenge!

 

Secondly, OS X does not load a device-related kext unless it is required. For example, if you have an nVidia graphics card, it won't load the ATI or Intel drivers, only the relevant nVidia kext. Naturally, you're expected to have the correct kext that supports your HW... To spice things a little more, sometimes you have to patch (=edit) an existing kext so that it supports your hardware! In such cases, you really have to get pretty familiar with your hardware and fairly computer-litterate.

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thanks for this - just to clarify: am not exactly computer-illiterate, just a newbie when it comes to fiddle around with kexts (no offense taken ;-)... problem is that there is no change in the loaded kext's on my mac whether the iSight camera is connected or not (cleared the kext cache, rebooted without the camera attached, listed the loaded kexts, attached iSight, confirmed it's working, again listed the loaded kexts... no difference.

so here the more precise version of my question: is there a tool that shows or way to find what (physical or logical) device is using what kext(s) ?

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