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-rw-r--r--HISTORY2
-rw-r--r--INSTALL10
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 085dcb16..ee0c0d4a 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -708,3 +708,6 @@ Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
Karim Afifi <karim.afifi@free.fr>
for reporting a problem with breaking off replay in case the user presses "Play"
or "Pause" too soon after going into "Pause live video" mode
+
+Jon Burgess <mplayer@jburgess.uklinux.net>
+ for pointing out a problem with NPTL ("Native Posix Thread Library")
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index a88dc8d9..359bda32 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -2230,3 +2230,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
- Completed Greek language texts (thanks to Dimitrios Dimitrakos).
- Completed Polish language texts (thanks to Michael Rakowski).
+- Added a note about NPTL ("Native Posix Thread Library") to the INSTALL file
+ (thanks to Jon Burgess for pointing this out).
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index cf66c5d3..2bae8e81 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -4,6 +4,16 @@ Installation of the Video Disk Recorder
Version 1.2
-----------
+IMPORTANT NOTE:
+---------------
+
+VDR currently doesn't work with NPTL ("Native Posix Thread Library").
+Either don't use NPTL, or set the environment variable
+
+ LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
+
+before running VDR.
+
Compiling and running the program:
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