Take the 2-minute tour ×  It seems I have a problem, and am only
making it worse by following what I find online. I have a new
Asus N550JV-D71 (not sure about the part after the dash, though
I definitely know it includes 71). I decided to downgrade
Windows 8 to 7, then dual boot Ubuntu 12.04 with it (there were
issues with Windows 8, and I had a Windows 7 disk handy). It did
work and, after installing Bumblebee in tty (because it wouldn't
boot when it was first installed), it worked marvelously for a
little less than a week. However, I restarted it last night and
got the Could not write bytes: Broken pipes error. (I see it's a
very common error, but I've looked at the majority of the
suggested Similar Questions already.) I followed what I could
find online, followed those instructions (making sure to not
install any sort of graphics drivers other than what Bumblebee
provides), and it just seems to go further and further downhill.
I'm afraid I didn't write the exact steps to get to this point
(it was late by