should I upgrade?

[dbaker]

1 CPU core at 100% and little wheel spinning for 10 seconds, with that "collecting information" notice, then the notice went away and there was just nothing.

[Kubuntu1404_Singapore]

1 CPU core at 100% and little wheel spinning for 10 seconds, with that "collecting information" notice, then the notice went away and there was just nothing.

That is odd indeed; presuming that situation persisted regardless of time given I believe you have a potential bug that could be reported to kubuntu or bugs.kde.org as that does not match the expected behaviour of the Driver Manager. There are definitely good questions and answers that I remember using on askubuntu or stackoverflow dealing with how to determine what driver is being applied using the command prompt; regretfully my memory is too poor to answer in that regard directly - I apologise for that.

[Kubuntu1404_Singapore]

That is odd indeed; presuming that situation persisted regardless of time given I believe you have a potential bug that could be reported to kubuntu or bugs.kde.org as that does not match the expected behaviour of the Driver Manager. There are definitely good questions and answers that I remember using on askubuntu or stackoverflow dealing with how to determine what driver is being applied using the command prompt; regretfully my memory is too poor to answer in that regard directly - I apologise for that.

And for what its worth it DOES look like you are using the X.org driver based on what you posted at the top of this page ... thus it is doubtful that is the problem. However, these are notoriously finicky and some searching about X window rendering errors pertaining to your specific chipset may prove very fruitful for you....

[dbaker]

I found instructions for checking the graphics driver via the terminal, here.
The output I got was:

 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
	Subsystem: COMPAL Electronics Inc Device 006b
	Kernel driver in use: i915

That "i915" bit seems to be the Intel graphics driver. Not X.org! But I don't know anything about these things. Anyway, I assume the Intel driver is the right one to be using...

[Kubuntu1404_Singapore]

I found instructions for checking the graphics driver via the terminal, here.
The output I got was:

 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
    Subsystem: COMPAL Electronics Inc Device 006b
    Kernel driver in use: i915

That "i915" bit seems to be the Intel graphics driver. Not X.org! But I don't know anything about these things. Anyway, I assume the Intel driver is the right one to be using...

Oops - I was reading the other poster's screenshot. You may find this X.org site of use: http://www.x.org/wiki/IntelGraphicsDriver/

If you can get the Driver Manager working first, I would do that and try to switch to X.org still. The relevant package is "kubuntu-driver-manager"

It appears available here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...driver-manager so if its in your repository (which it should be by default) you could attempt to re-install it. I could not find through google a 1:1 correlation with your situation (that kubuntu-driver-manager provides nil return and blank screen) unfortunately, but I only did a cursory check. If you are intent on solving, I am sure its fix-able, as the driver-manager is used for many users successfully....

All the best

[vinnywright]

I found instructions for checking the graphics driver via the terminal, here.
The output I got was:

 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
    Subsystem: COMPAL Electronics Inc Device 006b
    Kernel driver in use: i915

That "i915" bit seems to be the Intel graphics driver. Not X.org! But I don't know anything about these things. Anyway, I assume the Intel driver is the right one to be using...

you have the corect driver for your graphics card ,,,,,,the "driver manager" is not showing anything because their is nothing to show you .
intel is very forthcoming with their diver info for linux and supported out the box .

VINNY

[dbaker]

the "driver manager" is not showing anything because their is nothing to show you

this is what I thought, thanks for confirming