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+Userspace utilities and firmware for Hauppauge PVR cards.
+
+Note that the header files ivtv.h and ivtvfb.h included in the source
+tarball are already provided by the Linux kernel headers, so the included
+build script removes these.
+
+Similarly, two binaries v4l2-ctl and ivtv-ctl are provided by v4l-utils
+(assuming you did a full Slackware installation) and therefore the in-
+cluded build script removes those too.