Some funkiness with my first try at running a linux nvidia driver.

A software upgrade took me from 346.59 to 352.39. This had a good deal of collateral damage in my wireless connection and more so in the desktop manager. Got both of those fixed but the problem isn’t fixed and it remains the case that I have to boot first into an earlier version of the OS; restart; and then boot into the latest version. Those numbers have changed to 1) 3.19.0-26-lowlatency and 2) 3.19.0-28-generic.

If only I could figure out what this means, I’d know much better what the problem is.

I’ve now read enough around this topic to realize that Linux drivers for Optimus are problematic. Optimus may seem like a hardware stopgap that Nivida might think it can wait out but my guess it that Optimus may be with us for a while and, presumably, as the clock ticks Intel will do nothing but make their onboard graphics stronger. I can only guess that they’re researching something CUDA-like. They need new markets.