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authorDaniel Friesel <derf@finalrewind.org>2011-06-17 11:26:24 +0200
committerDaniel Friesel <derf@finalrewind.org>2011-06-17 11:26:24 +0200
commit6c0b2d844078ab2f6dd1fc6bf4c69519d3773339 (patch)
tree4313ef83bdf1d455e2b17255dfff98d7339992dd
parent0ae19af15eb57763dfbf84f7e5ef755b3fd49ed7 (diff)
Documentation updates
-rw-r--r--README7
-rwxr-xr-xbin/ekgping3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index 7ed8cc4..2f042e5 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -14,13 +14,12 @@ Dependencies
* SDL
* Term::Size
+Note that the Module::Build version shipped with perl 5.10 is too old for
+ekgping.
+
Installation
------------
$ perl Build.PL
$ perl Build
$ sudo perl Build install
-
-Note for Debian/Ubuntu users: There seem to be installation problems with perl
-5.10. If ekgping fails to find beep.ogg, try reinstalling it after installing
-libmodule-build-perl.
diff --git a/bin/ekgping b/bin/ekgping
index 43142ae..768cc54 100755
--- a/bin/ekgping
+++ b/bin/ekgping
@@ -237,6 +237,9 @@ B<ekgping> parses the output of ping(1), which means it assumes a certain
output style. It will only work with ping(1) programs whose C<< ping -n >> output matches
"<digit> bytes from <ip>: icmp_req=<digit> ttl=<digit> time=<float>".
+There have been reports about ekgping randomly skipping beeps. This might be
+an SDL problem, use C<< ekgping -t 0.8 >> as workaround.
+
=head1 AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2011 by Daniel Friesel E<lt>derf@finalrewind.orgE<gt>