I have a Sparc IPX which is running Debian Potato at the moment, but it has been running headless for awhile. Recently I was able to snag an LCD monitor at my office, so I decided to set up the IPX with it so it would be more useful to me. Plus, I admit, having a Sun lunchbox with a TFT on top sitting on my desk looks cool :)
Unfortunately, when I boot up the Sparc, the screen only draws about 1/4 of the way on the LCD, and it flickers like crazy. When I saw this, I immediately remembered reading somewhere that the older Suns put out some goofy refresh rate, which not all monitors can deal with. Knowing that LCD screens use a fixed rate, I'm assuming that this is the problem. Oh, I'm using one of those handy Sun-to-PC video plug adaptors, which has worked fine with a couple of CRT monitors. I'm guessing that I'm out of luck on this, but I thought I'd check and see if maybe there's some way to change the refresh rate that the Sun framebuffer puts out to be something that the LCD will be happy with. Any thoughts? /Owen
