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I installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit on my PC. After I've installed nVidia drivers (recommended) to solve the problem of the cursor that vanishes, Ubuntu freezes randomly when I'm working, I mean that the system doesn't react to my actions except when I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and then Ctrl+Alt+F7, with this solution everything returns to normal. I've narrowed down the cause to these 3:

  • The drivers don't work correctly
  • I was wrong to install Ubuntu on an ext4 partition
  • The swap partition is too relevant to the RAM (when I write in terminal cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness it reports a value of 60).

I don't want to install another distro before I've tried everything possible!

Asus X53S Series, nVidia GeForce 610M 2GB dedicated, Intel Core i7 (2,20 GHz) 64bit, RAM 4GB.

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  • Note that catting /proc/sys/vm/swappiness shows you a Kernel setting, not some statistics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swappiness - so having a value of 60 means nothing except that the value has not been changed away from its default. – DCTLib Aug 28 '14 at 10:31
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    Also, did you check the kernel log after the problem occurred. Type "dmesg" into a terminal for that. – DCTLib Aug 28 '14 at 10:32
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    Finally, related with some solutions is the following post: http://askubuntu.com/questions/464534/ubuntu-14-04-lts-randomly-freezes-graphics-unity-only?rq=1 – DCTLib Aug 28 '14 at 10:34

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You have an nvidia Optimus (hybrid graphics) setup. You need to remove the nvidia driver and use bumblebee

sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-current

To install bumblebee in Ubuntu 14.04, run these commands in terminal

sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia primus nvidia-331

Now you have to install Bumblebee GUI to manage apps to be opened using nVidia. Here is the instructions:

Install Python App Indicator:

sudo apt-get install python-appindicator

Install Git:

sudo apt-get install git

Make a directory for git:

mkdir git && cd git

Check out the repository:

git clone https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bumblebee-ui.git
cd bumblebee-ui
sudo ./INSTALL

Go to Startup Applications and add bumblebee-indicator

Now reboot.

I did not write this here is the source for the you need optimus info

This one is the install instructions

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