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<p>Getting this to work has been the bane of my morning, so here's what I did to eventually get it working:</p>

{% highlight bash %}
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia linux-headers-generic
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
{% endhighlight %}

<p>Edit /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf (as root). <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2043971">Change</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>
Driver=<br />
to<br />
Driver=nvidia</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>KernelDriver=nvidia-current<br />
to<br />
KernelDriver=nvidia
</p></blockquote>
<p>Edit /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia (as root). <a href="https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/Troubleshooting">Change</a>:</p>
<p>Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"</p>
<p>to</p>
<p>Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"</p>
<p>A reboot now should enable you to do: "optirun glxgears" without any problems. If it isn't working, make sure that bumblebee-nvidia is actually installed. Also, when the nvidia-current package was installed, make sure it can find the kernel source and isn't giving an error showing that it didn't actually build the module.</p>
<p>My next step is to verify that bbswitch is actually working to give the power saving.</p>