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sde · 01-03-2005, 10:17 PM

Ok, I've been making progress with my video surveylence project however I have never installed a driver on linux before.

I'm running debian sarge with the 2.4 kernel.

I have downloaded the bttv driver and the documentation says I need to define the kernel tree path in the make command. ( # make KDIR=/path/to/kernel/tree )

So where exactly is my kernel tree?

Also, once I get this installed, how do I tell my video device (/dev/video0) to use the bttv driver?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

01-03-2005, 10:17 PM	#1 (permalink)
sde Moderator Join Date: May 2002 Location: us.ca Posts: 4,544	Installing a video driver ( bttv ) Ok, I've been making progress with my video surveylence project however I have never installed a driver on linux before. I'm running debian sarge with the 2.4 kernel. I have downloaded the bttv driver and the documentation says I need to define the kernel tree path in the make command. ( # make KDIR=/path/to/kernel/tree ) So where exactly is my kernel tree? Also, once I get this installed, how do I tell my video device (/dev/video0) to use the bttv driver? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks __________________ Mike