Comment 0 for bug 1085044

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.

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.