On 16 November 2014 16:11, Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16/11/14 15:43, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 16 November 2014 14:35, Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 16/11/14 14:32, Rowan Berkeley wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 16/11/14 14:27, Colin Law wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 16 November 2014 14:21, Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screenshot/+bug/1393188 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Is fglrx installed? To find out: >>>>> apt-cache policy fglrx >>>>> >>>>> Colin >>>>> >>>> Yes, it is. But if you are thinking of the bug we looked at yesterday, >>>> >>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-screenshot/+bug/1103847 >>>> >>>> This isn't it, because that one generates an error message and fails to >>>> perform screenshot, and mine doesn't do that, it performs screenshot, >>>> but with an old image. >>>> >>> Sorry, correction: that one does perform screenshot, but with an old >>> image, >>> just like mine. But that one generates an error message, and mine >>> doesn't. >>> That's the only difference. >> >> >> I still think it would be worth uninstalling fglrx to see if it fixes >> it, it is a remarkable coincidence to get such an odd symptom. When I >> uninstalled it (for a different problem) it automatically fell back >> to the free driver and I don't notice any difference in performance >> (though I am not running graphics intensive games or similar). You >> can always re-install it again. >> >> Colin >> > I have found a couple of pages of instructions on how to do that: > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/445758/uninstalling-previous-install-of-the-fglrx-driver > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/68306/how-do-i-remove-the-proprietary-ati-drivers > > Any comments on those, please, to help me decide whether to pitch into one > or another of them?
No idea, sorry, I just uninstalled fglrx. Possibly that was not the right thing to do but it seemed to work for me. Colin -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
