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I arrived here because I have broken 3D as promised - I have a NVidia
Geforce GT 525M in a Dell 5110 (Q15R) with Intel HD 3000 built in.

However, there's no obvious information as to how I get myself out of
the mess which Jockey has got me in because...

* Jockey doesn't tell me it's installing a .deb and which one, and offers me no means of reversing it. 
* Jockey's 'remove' doesn't actually remove stuff apparently. It just breaks the Intel support by installing a package and leaves it that way, even when you revisit Jockey and ask it to reverse the steps.

Basically I had working 3D desktop effects in LiveCD and original
install, then broken effects since running Jockey, and still broken even
after asking Jockey to remove, and removing the xorg.conf added by
nvidia-xconfig as advised by nvidia-settings.

I think I need to install Synaptic, and remove nvidia-current, but
there's been no discussion in this bug thread what people should
actually do who are experiencing the bug to get back at least to Intel
graphics.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/885204

Title:
  Recommending proprietary driver on hybrid systems can break 3D

Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “jockey” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Committed
Status in “jockey” source package in Precise:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Hybrid systems have two video cards, but only one can be used as a
  time.  On some machines, only the active card is visible, but on some
  both cards are visible to Jockey.  In this case, if the system is set
  up to run on Intel (say) with Unity-3d active and working fine, jockey
  will notice the NVIDIA card and tell the user that the -nvidia driver
  is recommended, and required in order to run Unity-3d.  The user then
  installs nvidia as recommended, reboots, and then loses 3d (since
  they're now using the nvidia GLX library with the intel video driver
  running.)

  There's probably several different ways to solve this.  One idea would
  be a blacklist registering specific systems which we know have hybrid
  cards with this particular issue, and have jockey not suggest the
  proprietary driver in this case (unless perhaps a --force flag is
  passed or some such).

  ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: jockey-gtk 0.9.4-0ubuntu10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic-pae 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Nov  2 09:04:15 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  MachineType: LENOVO 417024U
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic-pae root=UUID=8091c6fd-1036-47b4-8198-8c15474e7fad ro quiet splash initcall_debug vt.handoff=7SourcePackage: jockey
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 03/04/2011
  dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.bios.version: 8CET30WW (1.07 )
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
  dmi.board.name: 417024U
  dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.board.version: Not Available
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8CET30WW(1.07):bd03/04/2011:svnLENOVO:pn417024U:pvrThinkPadT420s:rvnLENOVO:rn417024U:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
  dmi.product.name: 417024U
  dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T420s
  dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

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