Welcome to the fun! First off, you configure the kernel my recompiling it with differant options. see the 'Kernel HOWTO' from the Linux documentation project. On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 08:23:40PM +0200, Sule Yildirim wrote: > > Hello, > I'm a new linux user and I'm trying to install videodevX. I see a sentence > at the v4l2 website that says before installing videodevX, I will need to > enable Video for linux in my kernel config as a module. I try to > understand how that's done (what that means). > > I tried to locate kernel.conf with "whereis kernel.conf" and I get > "kernel: /usr/src/linux-2.4.8/kernel /usr/src/linux/kernel/", but when I > get into one of these directories I only see .c files there but not the > kernel.conf file. > > Also if I get the kernel.conf file what changes/additions should I make to > it to implement what's indicated in the above sentence at v4l2 website. > > Thanks and best regards. > > Sule Yildirim > Ph.D student and research assistant > Ege University > International Computer Institute > Bornova Izmir TURKEY > Tel: +90 232 342 32 32 / 123 > Fax: +90 232 3887230 > http://bornova.ege.edu.tr/~yildirim > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
