since i install my linux os, i always use text mode.

today i want to use desktop and Ctr+Alt+F7 is useless

and when i try to use command "startx" ,once Into a graphical interface my computer crashs

after that i install xfce4 ,but when i use command

"startxfce4",AGAIN,my

computer crashs

some information of my computer is following

my X server

xorg-x11-server-common-1.4.99.901-29.20080415.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.3-3.fc9.i386
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.901-29.20080415.fc9.i386

my VGA

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0
Kernel modules: nvidiafb

my meminfo

MemTotal: 255108 kB
MemFree: 38236 kB
Buffers: 88644 kB
Cached: 70352 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 126288 kB
Inactive: 64740 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 255108 kB
LowFree: 38236 kB
SwapTotal: 524280 kB
SwapFree: 524280 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 31980 kB
Mapped: 20000 kB
Slab: 18596 kB
SReclaimable: 5336 kB
SUnreclaim: 13260 kB
PageTables: 2192 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 651832 kB
Committed_AS: 183256 kB
VmallocTotal: 765944 kB
VmallocUsed: 2924 kB
VmallocChunk: 762872 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 4096 kB



if you have similar experice ,please give some advice

ps : my computer is old and my os is fedora 9

if you need some other infomation,please tell me .

Please don't ask me why i use fedora 9 anymore!

But exactly that may be the problem. It features an ancient version of the nouveau driver used for your videocard. You may be able to fix this with installing the NVidia driver (you will need version 173.X), but if it doesn't you are out of luck with that old Fedora version.

Install a newer and, most important, still supported distribution.

Well, I can see why you're still using Fedora 9: 256MB of memory! The obvious answers are
1. Install a modern distro that will run, like AntiX
2. Upgrade to 1MB

I'm not so sure about the video driver problem, though. The GeForce FX 5200 was introduced in 2003 and Fedora 9 in 2008. But I'm no expert here: this computer does quite nicely without a video card! Since you say you normally run without X, you obviously don't need one either. Try booting with the VESA driver.

You might want to post your error log so that we can see what is wrong. /var/log/Xorg.0.log

the GeForce FX 5200 card was using ( not supported any more) the 173 driver

for the very old fedora 9 forget about using the kmod-nvidia
use the 173 driver

you WILL need to have already installed the kernel source for fedora 9 for the kernel you ARE running ( that last update might be fun to find)
gcc and the development tools ( including autotools )
and REINSTALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! all of MESA after installing the 173.run driver ( "yum reinstall mesa*" )
ALSO rather hard to do on fedora 9
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/arch...nux/updates/9/
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/arch...ux/releases/9/

there was a server break in and NEW!!! security keys were released half way through the fedora 9 life span
so you might not be able to find any working yum mirrors


the 173 driver is here
-- 32 bit
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.39-pkg1.run
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.39/