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\nOptimus cards running in Linux don’t enjoy the same level of support from Nvidia as its Windows counterpart. Using bumblebee gives people some control over the two graphics cards and power management but dynamic switching isn’t available yet. Anyone using optimus cards for gaming or some graphics intensive program will have to invoke the game or the program manually from terminal with a prefix command ‘optirun’ or ‘primusrun’. This is because by default bumblebee will set to use the Intel graphics.<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Using Intel Ironlake by default in bumblebee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\nThis  can get annoying at times and also may not work. So, to permanently enable Nvidia graphics card instead of Intel, you have to use nvidia-prime. It’s a package available in the Ubuntu repositories. The only drawback of using this is that, continued use of Nvidia GPU will drain your laptop battery faster and your laptop may heat up. You can use the latest kernel 3.12 as has initial support for dynamic switching for optimus.<\/div>\n

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xorg-edgers  ppa<\/h3>\n

To get nvidia-331 you will need to install the xorg-edgers  ppa . This will enable nvidia-331 packages
\nsudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers\/ppa
\nsudo apt-get update<\/p>\n

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Remove bumblebee<\/h3>\n

Bumblebee and all its associated packages need to be removed before installing nvidia-prime
\nsudo apt-get remove –purge bumblebee nvidia-304 nvidia-settings-304 bbswitch-dkms bumblebee-nvidia
\nsudo apt-get autoremove –purge<\/p>\n

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Install nvidia-331<\/h3>\n

sudo apt-get install nvidia-331 nvidia-settings-331 nvidia-prime<\/p>\n

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Install kernel 3.12<\/h3>\n

Download the 3.12 kernel packages from Ubuntu mainline kernel ppa site.<\/p>\n

\nFor 32bit<\/b><\/h4>\n

http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.12-saucy\/linux-headers-3.12.0-031200-generic_3.12.0-031200.201311031935_i386.deb
\nhttp:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.12-saucy\/linux-headers-3.12.0-031200_3.12.0-031200.201311031935_all.deb
\nhttp:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.12-saucy\/linux-image-3.12.0-031200-generic_3.12.0-031200.201311031935_i386.deb<\/p>\n

\nFor x64<\/b><\/h4>\n

wget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.12-saucy\/linux-headers-3.12.0-031200-generic_3.12.0-031200.201311031935_amd64.deb
\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.12-saucy\/linux-headers-3.12.0-031200_3.12.0-031200.201311031935_all.deb
\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.12-saucy\/linux-image-3.12.0-031200-generic_3.12.0-031200.201311031935_amd64.deb<\/p>\n

sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.12.0-*.deb linux-image-3.12.0-*.deb<\/p>\n

Once finished, reboot and by default, Ubuntu will boot into kernel 3.12 and it will be nvidia graphics card driver .<\/p>\n

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Using Nvidia 331 graphics card by default<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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