Switchable laptop graphics issues on Ubuntu 12.04?
I have the exact same Nvidia Geforce GT 630M in my laptop. The solution is basically run these commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia
Then when you need 3D graphics for a program, run it as optirun program
. To save power on laptops, it runs only that single program through your nvidia graphics card. To start nvidia-settings, run this optirun nvidia-settings -c :8
Unfortunately, Nvidia doesn't officially support these hybrid cards on Linux. For more information on bumblebee project, follow this link http://bumblebee-project.org/
If you have errors like any of these:
[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not load GPU driver
[ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
The "Failed to initialize NVIDIA GPU" error appears in syslog from bumblebeed / Xorg.8
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation Device
[10de:0fd1] (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
!!! Unknown header type 7f
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Then you may be experiencing this GT 650M bumblebee bug. Please send in any information you can to help resolve this. Other problems can be reported here: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues