** Description changed: Installing nvidia-experimental-310 causes bumblebee to uninstall, as bumblebee depends on nvidia-current. However, logically, nvidia- experimental-310, being an updated, newer version of the driver, essentially containing all the previous / existing features, should provide nvidia-current, and hence nvidia-experimental-310 should satisfy the requirements of bumblebee similarly as nvidia-current. - - This causes a major issue with laptops using Optimus technology; it restricts the users to nvidia-current, allowing no testing of the more up-to-date drivers with improved performance. + This causes a major issue with laptops using Optimus technology; it + restricts the users to nvidia-current, allowing no testing of the more + up-to-date drivers with improved performance. What should happen: User is able to install and use updated, even if experimental, nvidia drivers on a laptop with Optimus What happens: Installing nvidia-experimental-310 causes bumblebee to uninstall, and hence on boot-up no nvidia card is detected as there is no bumblebee kernel module to turn it on. + + EDIT: + With further inspection, as shown below (see full texts), it seems that the package nvidia-experimental-310 *does* provide nvidia-current. HOWEVER, it also *conflicts* with that package.
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