Ubuntu – How to install Nvidia 319.12 driver on an optimus system

I recently had this problem as well.

For me, all I had to do was run the following commands. I'll break them down:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo apt-get purge bbswitch-dkms bumblebee-nvidia

That installs the PPA-Purge utility and removes BBSwitch and Bumblebee

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

That installs the proper Linux headers. For some reason, BBSwitch wouldn't (for lack of a better word, insert) itself into the kernel.

Then a simple

sudo apt-get install bbswitch-dkms bumblebee-nvidia

fixed everything. Oh, and a reboot, of course :)

Hopefully this will help you at least a little bit! Please let me know how you go

I succeeded on my laptop with external HDMI : see my blog here I still need to figure out - at least if it's not a bug from the drivers - how to get everything working when actually NOT using HDMI because in my case it doesn't work (with nvidia drivers), but some others reported it's working.

Maybe you'll have better luck ! Cheers!