[ubuntu-uk] Bug report filed re screenshot problem

[Colin Law]

On 16 November 2014 16:47, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/11/14 16:42, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> 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:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> On 16 November 2014 14:21, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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