Ubuntu – How to install Nvidia Optimus in 14.04

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I've read dozens of news headlines last week, indicating that 14.04 has build-in Nvidia optimus support. How do I enable/install it?

I just installed nvidia-prime via terminal:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-prime

A reboot and everything worked fine. I recommend to install Prime Indicator for a fast switch:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install prime-indicator

Log out and log in and voila.

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

Try installing the new beta version of Nvidia 319.12 with bumblebee.

sudo apt-get remove bumblebee-nvidia nvidia-current nvidia-settings

sudo apt-get install bumblebee-nvidia nvidia-319 nvidia-settings-319