One green light instead of two?

Whenever I had used my built-in isight camera (black macbook) in the past both of the green lights around the camera lit up. Today when I started my computer the left green light turned on by itself and I had not opened any applications that uses the camera (the computer was still starting up). I shut down and started again and the light went off. However now whenever I use my camera only the left green light turns on instead of both. How can I fix this?
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Whenever I had used my built-in isight camera (black macbook) in the past both of the green lights around the camera lit up. Today when I started my computer the left green light turned on by itself and I had not opened any applications that uses the camera (the computer was still starting up). I shut down and started again and the light went off. However now whenever I use my camera only the left green light turns on instead of both. How can I fix this?
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(1) Check your MacBook's User Guide manual carefully to verify whether there should be one or two green lights. There is only one on my MacBook Pro, but your Mac may be different.
(If necessary, download the manual from http://support.apple.com/manuals/#macbook
(2) Once you know if you have a problem, try all relevant suggestions from Apple's iSight Troubleshooting article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090
If your iSight problem occurs in more than one app and more than one user account, the reset suggested there often restores proper function of inbuilt iSight.
However, if after carefully following all the suggestions in the "How to Troubleshoot iSight" article, your built-in iSight still does not work, and if it does not show as a USB device in your Mac's System Profiler, yours is most likely a hardware problem. In that case, contact Apple or an Apple-Authorized Service Provider for service.
(3) If your posted System Info is correct that you are using Mac OS X (10.5.3), unless you have compelling reasons for not doing so, you should update to the latest version of Leopard using the following method:
• Use Disk Utility to repair permissions. Then download and apply the 10.5.8 COMBO update:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10_5_8_ComboUpdate
• Repair permissions IMMEDIATELY again after the restart that finishes the installation.
• Then retest iSight Troubleshooting to see if you still need help from an Apple Technician.
The Combo Updates keep my Macs running so well that this is the ONLY method I now use for any Mac OS update.
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