Help me, please

[danmand]

I have an old thinkpad 770x, who's win98 I destroyed last year. Now I have installed win98 from cd, but the machine insists that the display is a 600 by 400 display instead of the 1260 by 782. I have installed the1260 by 782 driver, but every time I boot, it reinstalls the 600 by 400 driver. The display looks awful.

Is there any way I can tell the system that the display is 1260 by 782??

PS: I tried to install Ubuntu, but Ithe CDROM reader cannot boot from the
Ubuntu disk. I can boot an old version of Knoppix, and there the display looks great.

 

[Garrett]

Install the latest video driver from here:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/DSHY-3PGT93.html

You can see if the Lenova software to keep drivers up to date will work on your machine. In general, it works very well and outdated drivers on Thinkpads are usually trouble.

 

[cypherpunk]

A laptop with win98 with a native resolution in excess of 1024x768? How odd.

 

[danmand]

A laptop with win98 with a native resolution in excess of 1024x768? How odd.

I am the one that is odd. Sorry. The display is 1024X768. Seems to be a SXGA device.

Newest: it actually seems to be a 1280X1024 SXGA display

 

[WoodPeckr]

If your copy of linux looked great why not format again, then try a clean install of Ubuntu.
If anything it should run better than Win98 which may be conflicting with Ubuntu.

 

[danmand]

If your copy of linux looked great why not format again, then try a clean install of Ubuntu.
If anything it should run better than Win98 which may be conflicting with Ubuntu.

ISOLinux and Debian says that it cannot boot from Knoppix 5 or Ubuntu 7.10 or Ubuntu 6, when I try.

How do I get around that?

The old version 3 of Knoppix works great, as far as the screen goes, but
cannot find neither the wireless USB adapter or the cardbus adapter.

I have tried almost everything to get win98 to recognize the 1280X1024 screen,
to no avail.

 

[WoodPeckr]

ISOLinux and Debian says that it cannot boot from Knoppix 5 or Ubuntu 7.10 or Ubuntu 6, when I try.

How do I get around that?

The old version 3 of Knoppix works great, as far as the screen goes, but
cannot find neither the wireless USB adapter or the cardbus adapter.

I have tried almost everything to get win98 to recognize the 1280X1024 screen,
to no avail.

I didn't have those problems at all.
I just burned an ISO bootable CD of linux then ran it off the CD with XP till I installed in on a separate partition.
Not sure what your problem may be.