This was recently added to the package description: " Users of Rage, Mach, or Radeon boards may remove this package only if they use Driver "r128", "mach64", or "radeon" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf instead of relying on autodetection."
so, closing the bug. Saving half a meg of disk space is not that important. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/384316 Title: [RV530] "radeon" driver now depends on "ati" to be autoloaded, previously it did not To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/384316/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp