Hello everyone and thank you for taking a look at this topic!

I'm currently trying out Ubuntu 13.10 but I keep hitting a wall when it comes to installing a driver.

I've tried:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

This resulted in a un-bootable system. The screen just stayed black and the cursor displayed as an 'X'. After that I did had to re-install Ubuntu.

The computer I'm using is an Acer-Aspire-V3 with a build in Nvidia geforce GT 630M and also with a Intel HD graphics chip-set (not sure if chip-set is the right word here). "lspci | grep VGA" output:

pascal@pascal-Aspire-V3-571G:~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 630M] (rev a1)

I've searched a bit here and there and found out that it would be wise to mention that this laptop is using (or so I think) Nvidia Optimus, not sure if it will add anything to the subject but at least I'll mention it just to be sure.

Now to the questions:

Q1 How is this caused and how can I fix it?

Q2 What additional information could I provide to help you help me?