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I have tried over and over installing the latest drive for my 630m on Ubuntu 12.04 but all it succeeds in doing is changing my resolution and I have to remove it again, the laptop came with both a chipset graphics and the gpu but will only recognise the chipset any advise?

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  • type in the Terminal: lspci -nn | grep VGA and put the results
    – Suhaib
    Aug 23, 2012 at 1:29
  • Just tried but my resolution is so messed up can only see half the terminal
    – Fletcher
    Aug 23, 2012 at 1:34
  • Ok got my resolution fixed again the command you gave has given me a list of options
    – Fletcher
    Aug 23, 2012 at 1:44
  • Nothing happens
    – Fletcher
    Aug 23, 2012 at 1:51
  • Just a list of options again
    – Fletcher
    Aug 23, 2012 at 2:07

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Bumblebee Project: Bumblebee aims to provide support for NVIDIA Optimus laptops for GNU/Linux distribution

Check the wiki for a step by step to installation

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee

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  • I have followed the instructions on the bumblebee web site but after entering the last command line(sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia) I get the answer E: unable to locate package bumblebee, E: unable to locate package bumblebee-nvidia
    – Fletcher
    Aug 23, 2012 at 3:27

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