NVIDIA GTX 660M on 14.04 64-bit

Question

I have checked the other questions on here (e.g. Nvidia driver for GeForce GTX 660), yet nothing has provided any help. Generally, what happens is that I get nvidia-current downloaded and installed, but whenever I reboot, x does not come up and I am sent to a text-only login. Starting X manually does not work either. The only thing to do is to purge all nvidia content. Any ideas/help?

Answer 1

Bumblebee did not work for me. What did work, however, was the suggestion made in this thread (How to set up nVidia Optimus/Bumblebee in 14.04), taken from this website (http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/using-nvidia-graphics-drivers-with.html). Namely:

sudo apt-get purge bumblebee*
sudo apt-get purge libvdpau-va-gl1
sudo apt-get install nvidia-319 nvidia-settings-319 nvidia-prime