NVIDIA driver for optimus capable cards and UEFI

Has anyone have had any luck installing the nvidia (proprietary) driver for laptop with nvidia card like the Y series?
I can't boot the laptop after installing the Nvidia driver. After installing the driver, I get an error saying "device not found" and drops to a shell mode.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Yes, I did make this thread, but a month ago. Since then I have it resolved, and I even have it tagged as resolved. Back then, I had a lot of problem making it work. But that was a month ago.
And yes, I admit now that there are still issues with the driver. But as I've said at least twice already, the issues exist because native support NVIDIA provides is still relatively new. And yes, people are still experiencing problems because, I'll say it again for the third time, native support is still relatively new and therefore can be buggy.
I think it's totally off pace to make factual statements based on one's experience. You're not paying attention to what you're reading and you're very quick to jump  to conclusions. NVIDIA most certainly doesn't say that it doesn't support Optimus on linux based OSes. There are minimum required kernel and xrandr versions, and that's pretty much it. They even tell you how to install it on their website:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/31​9.12/README/randr14.html
There can be/are issues after you install it, and as I mentioned before, I summarized in another thread as to how I got around a lot of the issues I had. Click my username and view it.
Finally, every other person and their grandmother is using Ubuntu these days, so there is a lot of support out there for it.  I'd imagine that for the latest version of Ubuntu, someone out there has posted a step-by-step guide as to how to install the nvidia driver on an optimus card. The major issue is with older kernels or I'd imagine BSD, etc.

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