diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ae426ed..47f4acc 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ In order to compile LCDproc, you'll need the following programs:
 Depending on the ./configure options and your choice of drivers, you will
 need some additional programs or libraries installed:
 
-* DocBook if you want to create the documentation or Doxygen when used with
-  --enable-doxygen, also see
-  http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools/ and
+* DocBook XML converter "xmlto" if you want to create the documentation
+  or Doxygen when used with --enable-doxygen, also see
+  http://cyberelk.net/tim/xmlto/ and
   http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/
 
 * OpenLDAP if you --enable-ldap, see http://www.openldap.org/software/
diff --git a/docs/lcdproc-dev/README.docbook b/docs/lcdproc-dev/README.docbook
index 0b36e90..7690b88 100644
--- a/docs/lcdproc-dev/README.docbook
+++ b/docs/lcdproc-dev/README.docbook
@@ -1,18 +1,32 @@
 README.docbook
+--------------
 
-You can generate the documentation of LCDproc using
-the Docbook utilities.
+The documentation for LCDproc is written in DocBook,
+to be exact: DocBook V4.x XML.
+
+You can generate the documentation of LCDproc using 'xmlto',
+which is a shell-script frontend to an XML toolchain.
+
+Get it from http://cyberelk.net/tim/xmlto/ or pre-packaged
+from your distribution.
+
+To convert the Admin Guide to a single XHTML document, simply do:
+
+$ xmlto xhtml-nochunks lcdproc-dev.docbook
+
+See xlmto's man page for further conversion targets.
+
+
+In earlier releases it was possible to convert the LCDproc documentation
+using the Docbook utilities, but unfortunately this is not possible any
+more.
 
 $ docbook2html lcdproc-dev.docbook
 
-should generate ist as HTML.
+should create HTML documents, but currently fails.
 
-On my box (Mdk 8.1) I have to run
+Unfortunately I am not expert enough in DocBook and SGML to find out why.
+If you find out the cause of this failure, please do not hesitate to post
+the fix tho the LCDproc mailing list.
 
-$ docbook2html -c /etc/sgml/catalog lcdproc-dev.docbook
-
-(-c defines the location of the SGML catalog)
-
-Another tool is 'xmlto', use it this way:
-
-$ xmlto html lcdproc-dev.docbook
+Peter Marschall
diff --git a/docs/lcdproc-user/README.docbook b/docs/lcdproc-user/README.docbook
index d042f40..7c0ac16 100644
--- a/docs/lcdproc-user/README.docbook
+++ b/docs/lcdproc-user/README.docbook
@@ -1,18 +1,32 @@
 README.docbook
+--------------
 
-You can generate the documentation of LCDproc using
-the Docbook utilities.
+The documentation for LCDproc is written in DocBook,
+to be exact: DocBook V4.x XML.
+
+You can generate the documentation of LCDproc using 'xmlto',
+which is a shell-script frontend to an XML toolchain.
+
+Get it from http://cyberelk.net/tim/xmlto/ or pre-packaged
+from your distribution.
+
+To convert the User Guide to a single XHTML document, simply do:
+
+$ xmlto xhtml-nochunks lcdproc-user.docbook
+
+See xlmto's man page for further conversion targets.
+
+
+In earlier releases it was possible to convert the LCDproc documentation
+using the Docbook utilities, but unfortunately this is not possible any
+more.
 
 $ docbook2html lcdproc-user.docbook
 
-should generate ist as HTML.
+should create HTML documents, but currently fails.
 
-On my box (Mdk 8.1) I have to run
+Unfortunately I am not expert enough in DocBook and SGML to find out why.
+If you find out the cause of this failure, please do not hesitate to post
+the fix tho the LCDproc mailing list.
 
-$ docbook2html -c /etc/sgml/catalog lcdproc-user.docbook
-
-(-c defines the location of the SGML catalog)
-
-Another tool is 'xmlto', use it this way:
-
-$ xmlto html lcdproc-dev.docbook
+Peter Marschall