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-rw-r--r--CONTRIBUTORS3
-rw-r--r--HISTORY1
-rw-r--r--INSTALL6
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 2e01cfec..e2dd4980 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1633,3 +1633,6 @@ Marcel Schaeben <mts280@gmx.de>
Ingo Schneider <mail@ingo-schneider.de>
for adding a SleepMs() in cRecorder::Action() to avoid a busy loop
+
+Patrick Cernko <errror@errror.org>
+ for suggesting to add a note about "modprobe capability" to INSTALL
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 1efe208c..7dc2d43d 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4165,3 +4165,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
introduced in version 1.3.32.
- Removed the now obsolete "ca.conf" section from vdr.1 (thanks to Ville Skyttä).
- Added missing description of L and R circular polarization to 'diseqc.conf'.
+- Added a note about "modprobe capability" to INSTALL (suggested by Patrick Cernko).
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 18c303cc..3be9c34e 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ adjust the definition of DVBDIR in that file.
VDR requires the Linux-DVB driver version dated 2003-08-23 or higher
to work properly.
+You will also need to install the "libjpeg" and "libcap" libraries,
+as well as their "devel" packages to get the necessary header files
+for compiling VDR. If the "capability" module is not compiled into
+your kernel, you may need to do "modprobe capability" before running
+VDR.
+
After extracting the package, change into the VDR directory
and type 'make'. This should produce an executable file
named 'vdr', which can be run after the DVB driver has been