All of the distros are old. The link is dated June 19, 2003. The drivers will
not work with Ubuntu so it is pointless to try to get them to work, IMO.

Your best bet is to try other distros in the hope that they have included
drivers for old video cards or to play around with a generic one and settle for
low res. My own feeling is that this is likely problem with the monitor and card
settings not working together. I would try different monitors and see if that
helps. If not, then I would look at using boot parameters to get it to boot into
the video mode that suits your monitor.

It is best to set the boot parameters at the time of installation and that way
they become part of your permanent setup. However you can change them by editing
grub as this link explains:
grumpymole.blogspot.com/.../...b-boot-parameters.h\
tml
vga=771 and vga=ask explained below:
johanlouwers.blogspot.com/.../...r-for-debian.html