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slug001

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Registered: 2024-12-13

Posts: 21

Sony VAIO laptop has troubles with nVidia GPU drivers

I have obtained a VPCCW1S1E VAIO laptop. It carries a GeForce GT230M GPU inside. It has generated a lot of issues for me so far. Here's a list of symptoms: black screen (no backlight) with nouveau drivers while booting and ever after; GLX problems on nvidia-340xx drivers (plasma opengl compositing crashes, black fill instead of transparency on plasma, kitty fails with BadDrawable NV-GLX error); when X is started, laptop completely freezes after closing and lifting the lid, no response to keyboard, changing to a tty does nothing etc.; changing to a tty while X is running results in a black screen (no backlight), but it is possible to go back to the first tty and get X back.

This laptop has a P7450 Core 2 Duo, which appears to have no integrated graphics. nvidia-smi correctly reports the card as a GT 230M. The driver version is 340.108.

I will happily answer questions and post logs ^^

pvtvega

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Registered: 2024-11-25

Posts: 90

Re: Sony VAIO laptop has troubles with nVidia GPU drivers

Please start by posting your full boot logs:

journalctl -b

And share your X config in:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf # and whatever else is relevant if you have custom configs

slug001

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Registered: 2024-12-13

Posts: 21

Re: Sony VAIO laptop has troubles with nVidia GPU drivers

journal: http://0x0.st/XFpZ.txt
xorg.conf:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 340.108  (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-01)  Wed Dec 11 15:13:33 PST 2019

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "IgnoreABI" "true"
EndSection

Last edited by slug001 (2024-12-15 10:22:25)