I have bought a relatively new Asus N550JV notebook, which has two graphic cards and uses a technology called Optimus.
This is the hardware information:
$ lshw -C display
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: 3D controller
product: GK107M [GeForce GT 750M]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:f7000000-f707ffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 06
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:47 memory:f7400000-f77fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
Distribution information:
$ uname -a
Linux thomas-N550JV 3.8.0-30-generic #44~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 23 18:32:41 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
What I want is to use the nvidia card as my default graphics adapter. Is this possible?
What I've tried:
- installing
nvidia-319-updates
- installing
xserver-xorg-video-intel
- using the
ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
PPA and installing the above two drivers, independently and together. - using the official nvidia 319.49 driver