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Does your Laptop provide Nvidia Optimus Technology? If you have Nvidia Optimus technology in your laptop, you have, according to the Project Bumblebee FAQ, two options:
1) Check your system bios for an option to permanently switch to your nvidia graphics card
2) If your bios does not provide this feature you can use a solution named bumblebee. You can find all necessary background information about nvidia optimus technology and bumblebee project here. if you want to use bumblebee, you find the installation routine here.
Hope this helps