[ubuntu-uk] Bug report filed re screenshot problem

[Colin Law]

On 16 November 2014 16:11, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/11/14 15:43, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 16 November 2014 14:35, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com>
>> 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 <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com>
>>>>> 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