Hi Has anyone had success with usb inspection camera out "out of the box"
I recently bought a cheapo to use with my laptop thinking cheese would be able to handle it, sadly not. lsusb finds it as bus 001 device ID 090c:037 silicon motion,inc-Taiwan .
It would be really handy to use on a building project but thers no way I am going back to Windows 7,8,or10
Steamer

What is the correct USB ID of this camera? Did you visit this page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam

Many Thanks Emerson The site refers to an ov51x driver ,can this be used safely with Mint 17.3 & is there a way to install it automatically .
Steamer

What is the correct USB ID of this camera?

Not exactly sure, the only description I have found is what lsusb finds as in my first posting

Your first posting has incorrect USB ID.

OK will plug the camera in another pc & check it out ,my typing skill is non existant

You run lsusb in a terminal window and copy and paste relevant lines. https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-...-mouse-button/

Does guvcview do anything for you? A lot of devices have built in cameras these days, so it may not be the default camera, which can be problematic. Where "uvc" mean usb video camera (or something like that). Various other CLI tools like v4l-info, v4l2-ctl, uvcdynctrl, and such to view and change settings and other things.

$ mpv --ao=pulse --vo=opengl --demuxer-lavf-format=video4linux2 /dev/video0

Adjust according to your actual needs. Using guvcview is probably the easier way to view and change settings that you have control over. But a lot of that is scriptable with some of the previously mentioned CLI options. Additional devices will have names like /dev/video1 /dev/video2 and such.

$ ls /dev/video*

Also make sure that your user is in the video group.

$ groups
$ id

All of which assumes a working driver, but many usb cameras are standardized these days and usable.

# modprobe uvcvideo
$ lsmod | grep -i uvc

Here is the result from lsusb Bus 003 Device 002: ID 090c:037c Silicon Motion, Inc. Taiwan (formerly Feiya Technology Corp.) 300k Pixel Camera
Is this what you mean?

Yes, 090c:037c works with uvcvideo driver, is it loaded?

I have tried an ordinary webcam & cheese finds it straight away & the probe camera works on w7

How do I see if its loaded ? if it is not how do I find it & load

Hi...

With your camera plugged in, please open a terminal and post the results of...

Regards...

Have looked in driver manager ,3 drivers present nvidia 304 used 173present also nouveau,