Installing a video driver ( bttv )

[sde]

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

[sde]

apparently i already have the bttv.o file, .. but i'm still wondering if i need to configure a specific device to use the driver, or if it will just know.

[nimaj]

do an lsmod and see if bttv is listed. If so, the module is obviously loaded, and a device is assigned to it, check dmesg to find out.