Computer hangs when switching video modes

[CorneLinux]

Hello,
my computer completely hangs, when I switch video modes, i.e.

- it hangs when running X and hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to a text console
I can do nothing afterwards. The screen is black. I found nothing realy good in the logfiles.

- it hangs when I want to shut down the computer, since it then wants to go to text mode.
so I have to enter "halt" in an xterm

- It hangs, when it is booting (sometimes)
It only starts, when it did a filesystem check (in text mode).
When it start properly with the graphical boot screen, it will hang, when starting X!

Thanks in advance for any hint!
Cornelius

Here are some information about my system:

Geforce FX 5200
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run
Fedora Core 1
Linux schnuck 2.4.22-1.2188.nptlsmp #1 SMP Wed Apr 21 20:12:56 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Name : XFree86 Version : 4.3.0
[root@schnuck root]# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0
Model: GeForce FX 5200
IRQ: 16
Video BIOS: ??.??.??.??.??
Card Type: AGP


my processor Intel Northwood HT:
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 2806.383
cache size : 512 KB

My MBoard:
Asus P4P800 Deluxe
Handle 0x0002
DMI type 2, 8 bytes.
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
Product Name: P4P800
Version: Rev 1.xx
Serial Number: MB-1234567890


--snip--
my /etc/X11/XFree86:

# XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
# this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
# also use USB mice at the same time.
Identifier "DevInputMice"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Hansol Electronics Mazellan900P"
DisplaySize 360 270
HorizSync 30.0 - 96.0
VertRefresh 47.0 - 150.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
#Option "NoLogo" "yes"
#Option "RenderAccel" "yes"
#Option "NoBandWidthTest" "yes"
#Option "NvAGP" "1"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"

#Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768"
#Modes "1152x864" "1024x768"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

[whig]

I'm not sure you should have this bit...

Load "fbdevhw"

in your XF86Config. Another concern is your old kernel. I was sometimes getting crashes on X logout, but this hasn't happened since 2.4.23. Use the latest one, 2.4.26.

[CorneLinux]

Hi,

I already uncommented the Load "fbdevhw".
I also tried the Option NvAGP 0...

No really good result.
I installed/compiled the driver anew. It looks a bit better now, but it seems to get worse with the time... ???

I think I really should upgrade the kernel. But that is really strange

Cornelius