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I have problems installing this nvidia gt630m driver on my new laptop running mint 14.

I first tried installing nvidia-current and nvidia-settings from software manager but that simply reduced my resolution to 640x480 max. I had to do a clean install after that as I had no other idea.

Then I came across bumblebee project for optimus graphics cards and followed instructions on
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee#Installation
to install. The install seemed to go smoothly.

But after that lspci -v | less says
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 630M] (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
!!! Unknown header type 7f

so it seems to me that something has gone wrong with the bumblebee installation. Any suggestions to solve this issue?

the gt630m is indeed an optimus enabled nvidia card and so far bumblebee is the only option for those cards; it's possible that the installation went wrong, can you give us the output of

Here is the output of inxi -Gx

Graphics: Card-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
Card-2: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 630M] bus-ID: 01:00.0
X.Org: 1.13.0 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1366x768@60.1hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 9.0 Direct Rendering: Yes

bumblebee was installed successfully: you have cards recognized and are using intel; when and if you need the nvidia card you use (i believe that all this is in the bumblebee wiki)

ok that is a strange way to use a graphics card but I'm glad the driver is installed correctly. thank you!