My son just got a Motic DS300 microscope, which comes with a traditional eyepiece and a digital camera. The microscope has pretty impressive optical quality for the price, but of course the camera does not work under Linux**. The camera looks like a regular USB webcam without a lens, it gives the following vendor string when I hotplug: PROD: 6a5/d001/100 and loads up with /proc/bus/usb/devices showing Driver=(none). Given the small number of vendors that sell USB web-cam chipsets I suspect there is a pretty good chance that one of the existing drivers will work. So the question is how do I force a new vendor/product ID to be associated with an existing driver? And a follow-on question, assuming I get the camera working, what is a good application for grabbing USB-web-cam images. Thanks, Malcolm. ** The Motic tech support chaps are pretty helpful, they are trying to find out what chip set the camera uses. Apparently the user application is written in Java so may run fine, though I'm dubious that it will be able to talk to the camera even with a working driver in place.
