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<refentryinfo>
<title>KDE User's Manual</title>
<author><personname>
<firstname>Ben</firstname>
<surname>Burton</surname>
</personname>
<email>bab@debian.org</email></author>
<date>May 25, 2005</date>
<productname>K Desktop Environment</productname>
</refentryinfo>

<refmeta>
<refentrytitle><command>v4ldriver</command></refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</refmeta>

<refnamediv>
<refname><command>v4ldriver</command></refname>
<refpurpose>Video4Linux Generic driver for INDI telescope control</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>v4ldriver</command>
<group><option>-v</option></group>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>&kstars; allows you to configure and control astronomical instruments
such as telescopes and focusers via the <acronym>INDI</acronym> protocol.
<command>v4ldriver</command> is a device driver for supporting particular
types of external hardware.</para>
<para>This driver is not intended to be run directly.  Instead you should
use &kstars; to configure and operate your astronomical instruments.  Most
operations can be found under the <guimenu>Devices</guimenu> menu in
&kstars;.</para>
<para>&kstars; will start the <acronym>INDI</acronym> server internally, and
the <acronym>INDI</acronym> server will in turn start this device
driver.</para>
<para>Much more detailed information can be found in the &kstars; handbook
as described below.</para>
<para>&kstars; is a graphical desktop planetarium for &kde; and forms part
of the official &kde; edutainment module.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
<title>Options</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><option>-v</option></term>
<listitem><para>Write more verbose output to stderr</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

</refsect1>

<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>indiserver(1), kstars(1)</para>

<para>More detailed user documentation is available from <ulink
url="help:/kstars">help:/kstars</ulink>
(either enter this <acronym>URL</acronym> into &konqueror;, or run
<userinput><command>khelpcenter</command>
<parameter>help:/kstars</parameter></userinput>).</para>

<para>There is also further information available at <ulink
url="http://edu.kde.org/kstars/">the &kde; Edutainment
website</ulink>.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
<title>Authors</title>
<para><command>v4ldriver</command> was written by &Jasem.Mutlaq;</para>
<para>This man page based on the one written for Debian by <personname><firstname>Ben</firstname><surname>Burton</surname></personname> <email>bab@debian.org</email></para>
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