Hi Ferry,

It should be that when installing bumblebee it should install nvidia,
but installing the nvidia drivers should not install bumblebee.
Bumblebee is a 'hack' to get dual video cards working until nvidia
supports it in their linux drivers.  What bumblebee does is it stops the
nvidia module (nvidia-331 in this case, hence why modprobing nvidia-331
and restarting x works) from loading at boot time, the kernel loads the
intel driver only.  Then when you use the optirun or primus commands it
then loads the nvidia module and runs that application on the nvidia
card.  The whole point is not to load the nvidia module at all, until
needed, to save power, using bbswitch-dkms package,  I use bumblebee on
my work laptop and hence why I was able to decipher the issue.

As you can imagine, since we don't have another video card on our
setups, X bombs on loading because its configured to used the nvidia
driver but bumblebee has stopped it from loading at boot time.

I suspect the packages dependency is wrong.

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  nvidia-331 update installs bumblebee [xorg-edgers]

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