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+Turns your Realtek RTL2832 based DVB dongle into a SDR receiver
+DVB-T dongles based on the Realtek RTL2832U can be used as a
+cheap SDR, since the chip allows transferring the raw I/Q
+samples to the host, which is officially used for DAB/DAB+/FM
+demodulation.
+
+Below are some paramaters that can be passed to the slackbuild
+to turn on some optional components.
+
+RULES=yes|no (Default is no) In order to be able to use the
+dongle as a non-root user, you may install the appropriate
+udev rules
+
+DETACHING=yes|no (Default is no) kernel driver detaching