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First of all sorry for my English, it's not my first language.

Here is what I have done:

I had a working ubuntu 12.04 with all updates and working bumblebee, so I could do optirun command and battery life was better than without bumblebee.

Than I decided to reinstall both my systems installed windows 7 and ubuntu.

Reinstalled Windows 7 all working as expected, than on other partition installed ubuntu 12.04. All worked perfectly. Than I installed bumblebee according to the procedure written here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee same steps that I used before.

But now after I install drivers and do all written in procedure and I reboot my notebook system won't boot, it is simply stuck at black screen after short showing of start screen.

I reinstalled ubuntu many times already and tried everthing, but when I try install nvidia drivers it won't boot after shutting down notebook and only thing I can do is reinstalling system.

I have Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E530 and processor: Intel® Core™ i5-3210M CPU and graphic cards are Intel HD 4000 and Nvidia geforce gt630m

After clean install without bumblebee, terminal command lspci| grep VGA is showing:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge Graphics Controller (rev 09)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0de9 (rev a1)

Can you suggest a sollution?? Or at least some links to similar topics??

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Ubuntu 12.04.02 ships with a Hardware enablement stack. Basically this is a stack providing kernel/xorg from Quantal (packages linux-generic-lts-quantal and xserver-xorg-lts-quantal) to improve hardware support.

What probably happened when you installed Bumblebee is that, because it depends on the default Xorg stack, xserver-xorg-lts-quantal was removed and replaced with xserver-xorg, and those two stacks don't seem to work well when mixed.

To fix this you need to boot in text mode. The easiest way is to achieve this is pressing E when you highlight your Ubuntu entry on Grub. This will let you edit the entry (non permanently). There you should see a line similar to this:

linux   /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-23-generic root=UUID=(...)  ro   quiet splash $vt_handoff

Replace the quiet splash $vt_handoff with text and press Ctrl+X. This should boot you in text mode. After login you have to choose what to do next:

  1. Revert the changes you made: this will remove Bumblebee and let you start your system again. You will only be able to install Bumblebee without breaking the system when someone fixes Bumblebee dependencies

    sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-lts-quantal linux-generic-lts-quantal
    
  2. Remove the Hardware Enablement stack. This will let you install Bumblebee.

    sudo apt-get install linux-generic xserver-xorg
    

Either one of those options will install a lot of packages and remove others, so you will need to have internet access. Also if you have important information make a backup before you proceed.

I had the same problem and used the second option, and everything works now. I have not tried the first option, but it should work as well.

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  • Thanks for reply, I will try it ASAP. I don't have time now because of school.
    – malarkey25
    Feb 22, 2013 at 14:16
  • I tried your advices but it didn't worked. But you are right, it was because of hardware enablement stack packed with ubuntu 12.04.02.. So I downloaded ubuntu 12.04.01 from old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases and all is working now :)) Thank you very much for your reply
    – malarkey25
    Feb 28, 2013 at 23:15
  • I ran into exactly that problem just now, and blindly fixed it by reinstalling the "old" xserver. @Andrej you should really select Salem's answer as the correct one. Mar 12, 2013 at 20:06
  • Selected as correct...sorry forgot about it...
    – malarkey25
    Mar 15, 2013 at 21:50

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