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I'm attempting to install drivers for my GFORCE 610M and none of the solutions seems to work. Generally people recommend using the jockey-gtk program, which doesn't detect the card and states that there's no propitiatory drivers to install. I tried download the official binary from the NVIDIA site, but that told me that I had to remove the Nouveau kernal driver, so I did that, following the instructions on the wiki (apt-get remove --purge xorg-something or other) and ignoring the "DON'T DO THIS" warning, after that didn't do anything i installed various packages (nvidia-common, nvidia-settings, etc) and eventually got the nvidia-settings program (and a very low screen resolution). Unfortunately when I open nvidia-settings it tells me to run nvidia-xconfig as root (i've done this several times, but to no avail) and doesn't let me configure anything. At this point I tried re-running the binary installer i downloaded from nvidia's site, and it said it worked but it didn't change a thing. So I'm out of ideas, what've you got?


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Solved, but I had to do a full reinstall. On a clean copy of Ubuntu 12.04 desktop, following instruction on a page I can't find anymore I first purged the existing nvidia-current:


sudo apt-get purge nvidia-current


Then added the bumblebee repository:


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable


Then updated and installed bumblebee:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia


After a reboot everything worked nicely


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