>> There is no Slackware official package for Kaffeine. The
>> build script
>> in http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.2/multimedia/kaffeine/
>> has no
>> non-trival patch, but I don't know if it is the script
>> Darrell used.
>
> Pretty much the same script, although I use a snippet from the slacky.eu
> script. Yet as you said, there are no known non-trivial patches that could
> cause this behavior. The cause has to be something in the TDE sources, in
> modified TDE header files, or in the video detection scheme embedded
> somewhere in TDE Kaffeine.
>
> The OSD bug does not cause a crash or anything serious, but the
> flourescent green is hard on my eyes. Very geeky looking too. :(
>
> Darrell

It looks like upstream lost a lot of configuration options in Kaffine in
the later releases.  For example, here is an older document referring to
the OSD configuration tab, which is competely gone on my systems:
http://beginlinux.com/appsm/otherapps_m/kaffeine_m

This should be looked into.

Tim