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I have a 2 year old laptop (an ASUS K73SV, 8Gb RAM, intel i7-2630QM, nVIDIA GeForce GT540M 1Gb) and the GPU setup is a hybrid system (which means it switches between the intel HD integrated in the CPU).

I'm running only Ubuntu 13.10 atm and any proprietary driver installation of Nvidia has failed. Bumblebee, optimus, etc..

Is there anybody out there who can tell me if it's even possible to install proprietary drivers on my laptop? (or somebody with a similar setup who found a miraculous way to install and use them?).

I have been trying over a year to find something and this is my last resort ;).

Thank you for trying to help me!

EDIT: To clarify, before I installed the nvidia drivers without bumblebee, I just got stuck with a black screen at boot. I'd had to mess around with the command line to get everything working again but it did work again. Then I tried bumblebee, I thought it didn't work because nothing really changed (optirun). Now I have bumblebee installed but no idea how I should check if it works...

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If you've followed the instructions here, you should probably have installed bumblebee-nvidia and primus, right? I believe primus gives a better performance over virtualgl. The latter is still the default, though, so you should run optirun with the -b primus option: optirun -b primus glxgears. See if you get a better performance.

Also, have a look on this post, which is very enlightening: https://askubuntu.com/a/36936/169250

EDIT: Try to update your nvidia drivers:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get install nvidia-331
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove #this should remove old drivers
sudo apt-get reinstall bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia

EDIT2: Apparently, you'll need to change a configuration file. See here (under Updating Drivers): https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee#Installation

And it seems that running optirun nvidia-settings you can probably see if the nvidia GPU is working.

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