I installed Ubuntu 24.04 on my old Sony Vaio laptop SVS1511f4r with NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE few days ago.
First I had a problem when I shut down my computer. It hanged before shutting down, and I needed to push the power button to shut it down completely. I solved this by disabling the nouveau driver by default.
Second is that I couldn’t run the 470.239.06 driver correctly. The ‘ubuntu-drivers devices’ command doesn’t detect the NVIDIA driver. So I tried to install it manually from ubuntu repository and from the sources, but it didn’t started in both cases.
When system starts I always have some ACPI errors
[ 24.754547] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000400-0x000000000000047F (\PMIO) (20230628/utaddress-204)
[ 24.754557] ACPI: OSL: Resource conflict; ACPI support missing from driver?
[ 24.754562] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000540-0x000000000000054F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000055F (\_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP.GPIO) (20230628/utaddress-204)
[ 24.754568] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000540-0x000000000000054F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20230628/utaddress-204)
[ 24.754574] ACPI: OSL: Resource conflict; ACPI support missing from driver?
[ 24.754576] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000530-0x000000000000053F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000055F (\_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP.GPIO) (20230628/utaddress-204)
[ 24.754583] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000530-0x000000000000053F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20230628/utaddress-204)
[ 24.754588] ACPI: OSL: Resource conflict; ACPI support missing from driver?
[ 24.754590] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000052F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000055F (\_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP.GPIO) (20230628/utaddress-204)
[ 24.754596] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000052F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20230628/utaddress-204)
and
[ 27.496854] ACPI: video: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI(PEGP) defines _DOD but not _DOS
[ 27.497091] ACPI: video: Video Device [PEGP] (multi-head: yes rom: yes post: no)
[ 27.497150] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:2c/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input11
[ 27.499009] ACPI: video: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[ 27.499233] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:01/input/input12
Xorg starts, but displays nothing. The Xorg log also contains some ACPI messages
[ 1256.948] (II) NVIDIA(0): GPU initialized
[ 1256.949] (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI: AC state file path: /sys/class/power_supply/ADP1/online
[ 1256.949] (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI: the system is running on AC power
[ 1256.949] (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI: failed to connect to the ACPI event daemon; the daemon
[ 1256.949] (II) NVIDIA(0): may not be running or the "AcpidSocketPath" X
[ 1256.949] (II) NVIDIA(0): configuration option may not be set correctly. When the
[ 1256.949] (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI event daemon is available, the NVIDIA X driver will
[ 1256.949] (II) NVIDIA(0): try to use it to receive ACPI event notifications. For
[ 1256.949] (II) NVIDIA(0): details, please see the "ConnectToAcpid" and
[ 1256.949] (II) NVIDIA(0): "AcpidSocketPath" X configuration options in Appendix B: X
[ 1256.949] (II) NVIDIA(0): Config Options in the README.
[ 1256.949] (WW) NVIDIA(0): ACPI: failed to determine the system's docking state: Unable
[ 1256.949] (WW) NVIDIA(0): to find /sys/devices/platform/dock.*/docked file. Kernel
[ 1256.949] (WW) NVIDIA(0): version may be less than 2.6.20 or dock.ko driver may not
[ 1256.949] (WW) NVIDIA(0): be present
The nvidia-smi tool shows some information about GPU, like temperature, but displays that ‘GeForce GT 640M Off’
I have read some topics about this and tried to set some ‘acpi’ flags combinations in the grub command line, but it didn’t help. The kernel is 6.8.0-31. My bios version R0142C5 is old, and have no updates.
I attach the logs according to the instruction of this forum
nvidia-bug-report.ubuntu-rep.log.gz (335.2 KB)
Xorg.0.log (38.8 KB)
Any ideas? Is there a problem in kernel or inside the 470.239.06 driver?
Thank you