Nvidia Prime setup

**mads2106** · April 14th, 2014

Hello everyone.
I have just upgraded to 14.04, and I thought I would finally have a crack at getting my Nvidia Optimus graphics working.
So I have installed Nvidia-Prime, and Nvidia x server settings. Nothing else has been installed graphics or driver wise other then what comes with 14.04.
So what do I do from here?
In Nvidia settings, there doesn't seem to be an option to enable my graphics card... (screenshot attached).

Nvidia Settings.png

My system:
Lenovo W530
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit
CPU: i7-3610QM
GPU: Intel 4000 and Nvidia Quadro K1000m. (in [settings] -> [details] it simply reads: [Graphics Intel® Ivybridge Mobile] )

Regards. Mads.

**mc4man** · April 14th, 2014

You have to do a restart.
If it still doesn't show a fuller settings window then post what nvidia driver package you installed.
( prime works ok here nvidia 660m & 755m but due to no vsync possible atm in prime find it unsuitable though lack of vsync may not be an issue for you..

**mads2106** · April 14th, 2014

Just restarted, still nothing. Looks exactly the same.
I then ran:

Code:

sudo lshw -c video

and got following output:

Code:

*-display                      description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GK107GLM [Quadro K1000M]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
       resources: irq:48 memory:f0000000-f0ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:5000(size=128) memory:f1000000-f107ffff
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:46 memory:f1400000-f17fffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:6000(size=64)

So it seems that my Quadro runs a nouveau driver, which I assume is not what it is supposed to do when I want to run it with Nvidia Prime right?
In the additional driver module in software & updates I get these to choose from:
drivers.png
Which one would be the right pick?

**mads2106** · April 15th, 2014

Solved it.
I used the 331.38 (proprietary, tested) driver instead, and now it is working brilliantly with Nvidia prime, both on intel and quadro graphic.