9.1 + philips webcam

Hi all,

This is probably old but it just happened to me.  My logitech quickcam pro 
3000 webcam wouldn't work after installing 9.1 when it did with earlier 
versions of SuSE.

After a bit of research, I found out that it was the result of a conflict on 
the inclusion of hooks from the pwc driver to the pwcx driver into the 
kernel.  I empathize with the creator of the driver and question the kernel 
maintainer's decision (see http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/).  I know that 
the maintainers are being orthodox and that the NDA agreement with Philips is 
over.  Whenever I see people who donate energy and time being victimized by 
decisions like these (removing the hooks from the pwc kernel) I wonder if 
they realize that the kernel maintainers are creating an abusive situation 
that most people use linux to get away from?

Today I am a dissatisfied user.  The waste of time  (and frustration) in 
recompiling the kernel with pwc enabled is ridiculous from my point of view. 
Can SuSE do something about it?  Please make GNU/linux a user-friendly 
solution for those of us who are not very advanced users and care for the 
'little guy'.


Thank you,


Alexandre Castonguay

P.S.

I found a workaround to the problem here  :
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=201502&highlight=suse+webcam+philips
However after recompiling, there seems to still be issues with the 
configuration of the V4L plugin!