Bug 159355

Summary: pwc module (philips webcom driver) not work here
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Stephan - <hi-du>
Component: KernelAssignee: E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 8   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i686   
OS: SuSE Linux 10.1   
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Description Stephan - 2006-03-18 17:21:38 UTC 
I see suse10.1 use the very old and unmaintained driver
( http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ )
.. why? :(

My Philips PCVC740K ToUCam Pro
worke fine with 
http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/files/

but with the old driver no success
Comment 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2006-03-18 17:57:39 UTC 
We use the version included in the main Linux kernel sources.  If you wish to get your device supported,
please get the author of the version you are using to get their changes into the main kernel tree.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146536 ***