Geforce FX 5200 whon't work on Mandrake 9

Hello

My Geforce FX 5200 freezes after i install the driver for it and if i don't it freezes :S help plz.

Hardware:
Geforce FX 5200
AMD +2500
on board sound
56k modem(but redy to donload anything)



PS: please forgive my spelling

PPS: if anyone elce has mde a post like this sorry but i did look for it

So if you do install the driver, it freezes, and if you dont install the driver it freezes.

than what makes you think it is the driver that causes it to freeze ?

give as much information as you can.
how bad is the freeze ? can you still ctrl+alt+F1 into a command line envoironment ?

how did you install the driver ?
how long after the driver is loaded does the freez happen ?

did any error messages apear ?

does the driver correclt load and show up in "lsmod"

did you correctly edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file ?
what changes did you make ?

after it freezes i can still ctrl+alt+backspace sorry i didn't know about ctrl+alt+F1.



"how did you install the driver ?" i hate to say it but i didn't my uncle did it.but every time try to install mandrake on my own it freezes it takes about 10 times to try so it whon't freeze and it will get thought it.



"how long after the driver is loaded does the freez happen ?" its differnt every time it could be all night before freezes could be when im working.


"did any error messages apear ?" No

does the driver correclt load and show up in "lsmod" i loads yes but the part about the Lsmod i don't know what that is.

did you correctly edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file ? didn't know i had to.

what changes did you make ? what do you mean?

after the machine has booted, open a command line and run "lsmod" does one of the lines start with nvidia ?

also, look for a line starting with rivafb (this shouldnt be there)

open up the xorg.conf file, and post it here.

what me to install the nvidia package?

PS.i'll do what you told me to do frist without it installed then i will do it with it installed


thx

this is the list of things i get after i tyep in "lsmod" as root

[root@localhost ryan]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
sg 38044 0
st 38616 0
sr_mod 17028 0
sd_mod 16832 0
scsi_mod 114648 4 sg,st,sr_mod,sd_mod
parport_pc 32832 1
lp 12200 0
parport 38952 2 parport_pc,lp
snd-seq-oss 31232 0
snd-seq-midi-event 7552 1 snd-seq-oss
snd-seq 51024 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event
snd-pcm-oss 51812 0
snd-mixer-oss 17952 1 snd-pcm-oss
snd-intel8x0 32776 0
snd-ac97-codec 58148 1 snd-intel8x0
snd-pcm 93156 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-intel8x0
snd-timer 24484 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm
gameport 4480 1 snd-intel8x0
snd-page-alloc 11972 2 snd-intel8x0,snd-pcm
snd-mpu401-uart 7072 1 snd-intel8x0
snd-rawmidi 23616 1 snd-mpu401-uart
snd-seq-device 8008 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi
snd 52484 12 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-intel8x0,snd-ac97-codec,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device
soundcore 9248 1 snd
af_packet 20520 0
ip_vs 97760 0
ide-floppy 18752 0
ide-tape 34864 0
ide-cd 40548 0
cdrom 37184 2 sr_mod,ide-cd
floppy 59444 0
8139too 23712 0
mii 4992 1 8139too
nls_iso8859-1 3904 1
nls_cp850 4736 1
vfat 13760 1
fat 45120 1 vfat
joydev 10240 0
evdev 9504 0
hid 53312 0
ehci-hcd 24196 0
ohci-hcd 18692 0
usbcore 99132 5 hid,ehci-hcd,ohci-hcd
rtc 11576 0
ext3 111048 2
jbd 54680 1 ext3


on the other hand could yyou plz tell m how to open the xorg.conf.

Im sorry if this is a big error but iit is not Mandrake 9 its 10 sorry.

PS:Mandrake has yet to freeze it the 2.4 kel but wile booting somethimes in the 2.4 kerl it freezes at boot, every when i restart and i force file system cheak , if i don't force file system cheak it works but i don't know if something when't wrong with the install so i force file system cheak.Just to be sure