Uninstalling ATI drivers screws up graphics

[floweringmind]

I wanted to install the ATI drivers from ATI and uninstalled the generic drivers. After uninstalled the generic drivers the menu and terminal windows were all rainbows and nonfunctional.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

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[floweringmind (floweringmind)]

Sorry about that, here is more info:

1. Installed Mint Linux.
2. Installed all updates.
3. Installed ATI generic driver.
4. Uninstalled ATI generic driver.

Problem: Menu and terminal windows are now rainbow colored and you can't do anything with them. I was able to use firefox as I had the icon on the desktop. The file manager also worked as I had an icon on the desktop.

What I was expecting: I was expecting to see the menu even in low res graphic mode and use the terminal program.

This was resolved when I dropped to a prompt and installed the official ATI driver and rebooted. Due to this I imagine this would be a low priority bug.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

I have reassigned this issue to ati driver for now. Have you tried to reproduce this issue using latest release available under Ubuntu Maverick?