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!