The GTX 750 Ti (which has the new Maxwell chip) on my desktop would not work with the nvidia-current in 14.04, but worked fine with nvidia-331-updates. Even the Intel driver in 14.04 works much better than whatever version was used with bumblebee in 13.10. However, my laptop has older Intel HD 4600 / Nvidia GTX 765M, so it works fine with nvidia-331-updates package from normal repos. So I did not use any boot parameters when installing Ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop and everything works fine.
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With nvidia-prime in 14.04 you use NVIDIA X Server Settings to select which graphics you want to use (although, I have to reboot when switching from Intel to Nvidia graphics) and no parameters are needed for steam games.ĭoes your laptop have visual indication of which graphics is being used? The power LED on my laptop is blue when using Intel and amber when using Nvidia.Īlthough, "nomodeset" kernel boot parameter is typically needed during install for desktops with nvidia only, someone on on a laptop with hybrid graphics said he could not get it to work unless he did "not" use nomodeset.
In 13.10 which used bumblebee, I had to insert some parameters before the optirun command to use nvidia graphics.
And nvidia-prime in 14.04 works far better than bumblebee did in 13.10. But the nvidia driver packages in regular repos or xorg-edgers ppa seem to work fine in real Ubuntu 14.04 (I am using 64-bit). I am not familiar with OS Freya or where to get help specifically for that. I hope you guys can help me with this or at least tell me if using nvidias driver is a good or a rather bad idea at the moment. Oh, and by the way I am running elementary OS Freya that is based on Ubuntu 14.04.
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I read that this may have not worked in earlier versions of nvidias drivers and you were forced to use bumblebee to run nvidia optimus hybrid graphics.īy now I feel like if it is working (except for steam). I am using Nvidias driver in version 352 with nvidia prime to run my gtx 960m besides the intel graphics that is inactive. Never the less steam still starts but everytime I try launching a game nothing realy happens.Īfter reading i figured out that my graphics driver might be some kind of incompatible to steam. I just started to get steam working on linux but I run into this failure on starting steam: "OpenGL GLX context is not using direct rendering, which may cause performance problems."