Re: 9.1 + philips webcam

if you go to www.kerneltrap.org you will see that it has all been resolved. 
But it seems a bit recent to have affected the SUSE 9.1 kernel?

On Monday 30 August 2004 17:46, Alexandre Castonguay wrote:
> 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&h
>ighlight=suse+webcam+philips However after recompiling, there seems to still
> be issues with the configuration of the V4L plugin!