@dino99 - I get "No additional information collected". Could this be
because the system just locks up rather than Apport catching the crash
like normal, so apport has nothing to report?

And just to confirm, Xorg.0.log shows I am currently using the Intel
driver:

$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep drivers
[    37.538] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
[    37.553] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[    37.564] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
[    37.573] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so

The nvidia-current driver IS installed (presumably because I installed
Bumblebee but never got it working) in /usr/lib/nvidia-
current/xorg/nvidia_drv.so :

$ sudo apt-cache showpkg nvidia-current
Package: nvidia-current
Versions: 
295.20-0ubuntu1 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_restricted_binary-amd64_Packages)
 (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
 Description Language: 
                 File: 
/var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_restricted_binary-amd64_Packages
                  MD5: 69c2f05a0969f9e9a522eef985e208f3
 Description Language: en
                 File: 
/var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_restricted_i18n_Translation-en
                  MD5: 69c2f05a0969f9e9a522eef985e208f3


Reverse Depends: 
  bumblebee-nvidia,nvidia-current 260.19.12~
  nvidia-current:i386,nvidia-current
  libgl1-mesa-swx11:i386,nvidia-current
  python-pyopencl,nvidia-current
  boinc-nvidia-cuda,nvidia-current
  boinc-nvidia-cuda,nvidia-current
  boinc-nvidia-cuda,nvidia-current
  nvidia-current-dev,nvidia-current 295.20
  libgl1-mesa-swx11,nvidia-current
Dependencies: 
295.20-0ubuntu1 - x11-common (2 1:7.0.0) make (0 (null)) sed (4 3.0) dkms (0 
(null)) linux-libc-dev (0 (null)) libc6-dev (0 (null)) linux-headers-generic 
(16 (null)) linux-headers (0 (null)) patch (0 (null)) acpid (0 (null)) libc6 (2 
2.2.5) libgcc1 (2 1:4.1.1) libx11-6 (0 (null)) libxext6 (0 (null)) libxv1 (0 
(null)) libxvmc1 (0 (null)) zlib1g (2 1:1.1.4) xorg-video-abi-11 (0 (null)) 
xserver-xorg-core (2 2:1.10.99.901) nvidia-settings (0 (null)) 
nvidia-180-modaliases (0 (null)) nvidia-180-modaliases:i386 (0 (null)) 
nvidia-185-modaliases (0 (null)) nvidia-185-modaliases:i386 (0 (null)) 
nvidia-current-modaliases (0 (null)) nvidia-current-modaliases:i386 (0 (null)) 
nvidia-180-modaliases (0 (null)) nvidia-180-modaliases:i386 (0 (null)) 
nvidia-185-modaliases (0 (null)) nvidia-185-modaliases:i386 (0 (null)) 
nvidia-current-modaliases (0 (null)) nvidia-current-modaliases:i386 (0 (null)) 
nvidia-current:i386 (0 (null)) 
Provides: 
295.20-0ubuntu1 - xorg-driver-video 
Reverse Provides: 


In general, would it be recommended to install the nvidia drivers from 
xorg-edgers PPA regardless?

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