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Frankenpunk
January 4th, 2009, 10:31 PM
Update manager wants to download xserver-xorg-video-ati and xserver-xorg-video-radeon, but I have an Nvidia graphics card. I have found someone else with the same confusion, but I cannot determine why those updates are queued for download/installation.

Should I remove them? Install them?

Please let me know if I should be asking this somewhere else.

staticsage
January 5th, 2009, 05:09 AM
This just showed up in my update list as well. They're already installed on my system (these are just updates) so I assume the updates are correct. Has anyone else seen this before?


$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-ati
xserver-xorg-video-ati:
Installed: 1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu2.1


Edit: I installed the updates and rebooted and nothing broke.

Frankenpunk
January 8th, 2009, 06:16 AM
Apparently some ati drivers are installed by default when you install ubuntu. Update manager is just detecting that there are newer versions of those (even though you're not using them). I just uninstalled my ati-specific drivers and everything seems to be running fine; and perhaps I'll stop being pestered by the updates that don't apply to my system.