I have the camera in object connected through USB to my PC (Core i3 with Ubuntu 20.04).
dmesg shows me that the camera is correctly connected:
[ 2.116714] usb 2-1.2: new SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[ 2.124436] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 2.124713] systemd[1]: [email protected]: Succeeded.
[ 2.125241] systemd[1]: Finished Load Kernel Module drm.
[ 2.128500] systemd[1]: Finished Load/Save Random Seed.
[ 2.137115] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=1ab2, idProduct=0001, bcdDevice= 1.00
[ 2.137122] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=4
[ 2.137126] usb 2-1.2: Product: ALVIUM 1800 U-040c
[ 2.137129] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: Allied Vision
[ 2.137131] usb 2-1.2: SerialNumber: 01NXC
as well as lsusb
~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 1ab2:0001
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e3:0612 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 08bb:29c6 Texas Instruments PCM2906C Audio CODEC
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:2513 Microchip Technology, Inc. (formerly SMSC) 2.0 Hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. 4-port hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
From the producer manual it seems that a Linux driver for the camera is not needed (Section: Installing the camera/Software and Driver Installation on the Host/Required Components).
However I cannot see this camera in /dev/video0 and if I launch Cheese no camera is detected!!!
Any idea on how to solve this issue?
Cheese uses Gstreamer, so using the gst-vmbsource plugin could help. https://github.com/alliedvision/gst-vimbasrc