Switching between Intel and NVIDIA GPU

Question

My laptop has 2 GPUs, the Intel HD Graphics 4000, and NVIDIA GeForce FT 650M. How do I switch between GPUs? I tried installing drivers from NVIDIA, but that ruined my Ubuntu installation, and I had to reinstall. The Additional Drivers in Settings don't list any Nvidia drivers either.

Solution

Your graphics card is not yet officially supported by Nvidia, and requires the bumblebee drivers for Linux. You can find more information on this post: Switchable laptop graphics issues on Ubuntu 12.04?

Comments

[Admin]

I thought I had ruined my fresh install of Ubuntu 13.10 with installing the latest video drivers from NVida, then I came across this site: news.softpedia.com/news/… The command line was a mess trying to install the latest drivers. As far as switching back and fourth would mean, correct me if I'm wrong here, just a change to the xorg.conf to point x to the other driver. Anyway I hope this is helpful. The PPA in that link is awesome guys over there to put the code injection for your current kernel version for the n

[Martin Schröder]

Please don't just link to an external site; Include all the usefull informations. Links rot.

[Gladen]

I'm sorry but please put a bit more effort in explaining what you suggest. I don't understand any of it.