nvidia geforce 8400m g suppurt in 64 bit?

[Les Gray]

On Friday 27 July 2007 13:09:45 James Takac wrote:

> I actually tried the driver from their site. It wont install for some
> reason. Just looked at the installer log again and see something in their I
> missed b4, i.e. x-server was running. Can I kick myself LOL Currently the
> system is dloading the updates for the system and am about to go to work.
> So I'll have to try again when I get home around 11:30pm. Guessing may need
> to boot into recovery mode as I was unable to stop x last time I tried
>
> James

You should be able to stop X with Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a console, login, and 
then run 'sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop' which shuts down your display manager 
and the X server simultaneously. This is the preferred method when installing 
the nvidia.com driver. I'm not sure recovery mode has enough of the system 
running to reliably install the driver, but I could be wrong.

Also, if you don't know already, follow these tips -

If you wish to install the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver on a Debian GNU/Linux 
or Ubuntu system that ships with Xorg 7.x, please ensure that your system 
meets the following requirements:

    * development tools like make and gcc are installed (they come with the 
package 'buil-essential')
    * the linux-headers package matching the installed Linux kernel is 
installed (or your kernel source tree if you built your own kernel from 
kernel.org)
    * the pkg-config and xserver-xorg-dev packages are installed
    * the nvidia-glx package has been uninstalled with the --purge option and 
the file /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx or /etc/init.d/nvidia-kernel does not exist.

If you use Ubuntu, please also ensure that the linux-restricted-modules or 
linux-restricted-modules-common packages have been uninstalled. 
Alternatively, you can edit the /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules 
or /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common configuration file and 
disable the NVIDIA linux-restricted kernel modules (nvidia, nvidia_legacy) 
via:

    DISABLED_MODULES="nv"