On 16 November 2014 16:47, Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16/11/14 16:42, Colin Law wrote: >> >> 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 >> > Well, how did you uninstall it? That is what those pages are about, how to > uninstall it. How did you do it.
sudo apt-get purge fglrx if I remember correctly. Colin -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
