Righto, first things first, tell us which flavour of linux you are using, which kernel version type "uname -r" in a terminal windows to get this. Likely an upgrade of the kernel will do the trick as the video 4 linux project, which develops these drivers, is (i think) likely to have this one sorted.
If you want to skip go and not collect your 200:
if you have a package manager like yum, or apt-get installed, use it to get the kernel
eg on my system i have yum
if you don't get it to work you after a kernel upgrade you may need to try the mercurial release of v4l at their website
http://linuxtv.org
to do this you need merurial on you system (install through your packacke manager, e.g. yum)
you will also need your kernels header files, which for me (running FC4) you get through yum with kernel-devel as the package.
you then need to compile the kernel module. All of the instruction are on their website so if you follw them you should be ok.
Sorry if this is too complicated, just ask if you need more help
