stuck with 640x480 resolution using bumblebee on 10.04

Question

I just installed bumblebee on a Dell XPS L502X. It basically works: optirun glxspheres does exactly what it should.

However, X is running with a resolution of 640x480. I can try to change settings with optirun nvidia-settings -c :8 (as suggested on the bumblebee wiki), but in the relevant section it only lists resolutions up to 640x480.

In the /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.* files, there are no Monitor or Screen sections. Adding them doesn't change anything.

How can I change the resolution?

Answer 1

In fact the problem is not with NVIDIA or bumblebee, but the fact that Intel HD 3000 is not supported under 10.04.

There is, however, a solution using backports here: How do I install the Intel HD 3000 video driver?

This worked fine for me, and didn't break the bumblebee/NVIDIA setup.