Re: ati control centre appears to require nvidia driver

Nick Brown wrote:
> Surely the ati control centre does not require the nvidia driver! Can anyone 
> explain whats wrong here?

Yes. You need i586 repositories installed, as ati-ccc requires 32bit 
libraries (ATI doesn't release 64bit version for unknown reason).

And the nvidia packages are proposed because of this Mandriva bug:
http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=28216

> 
> urpmi ati-ccc 
> One of the following packages is needed:
>  1- nvidia97xx-1.0-9755.1mdv2007.1.x86_64: NVIDIA module for X.org 7.2.0 
> server and OpenGL libraries (to install)
>  2- nvidia96xx-1.0-9631.3mdv2007.1.x86_64: NVIDIA module for X.org 7.2.0 
> server and OpenGL libraries (to install)
>  3- nvidia71xx-1.0-7184.6mdv2007.1.x86_64: NVIDIA module for X.org 7.2.0 
> server and OpenGL libraries (to install)
> What is your choice? (1-3) 1
> To satisfy dependencies, the following package is going to be installed:
> ati-ccc-8.38.6-1plf2007.1.x86_64
> nvidia97xx-1.0-9755.1mdv2007.1.x86_64
> Proceed with the installation of the 2 packages? (32 MB) (Y/n)

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