Isight and Leopard

i installed leopard on a g5 ppc. i want to store a short movie with my isight camera and imovie. but when i start recording the picture on the window stops and the recording stops also. on tiger OS i had no problem.
manfred

Okay, it just quit working again so I rebooted. That didn't help, so I shutdown and then booted. It still didn't work, so I rebooted into Tiger and got a green screen in Photo Booth. I then booted into Leopard and now the built-in iSight doesn't even show up in System Profiler.
I also noticed that the MBP took a long time to boot from power-on, so I suspect my MBP has developed a hardware fault.
I hate the thought of having to do without the MBP while it's out for repair.

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