>From Experience... The best way to go about Gentoo for 32bit sparcs is in a chroot on a faster 64bit Sparc system, you could probably also run a faster than realtime QEMU but that's a bit more of a hassle if you have fast Sun hardware. Last time I did this was on a T2000, I have been meaning to retrace my steps on a T4. I did run into a bug with portage or python... it would be nice to fix that so those could be used on Slower systems. I'd also like at some point to compile a list of software in the vein of suckless.org (perhaps a bit less masochistic though), that is usable on old machines, the one I really want to dogfood is pcb-rnd and corelEDA on a sparcstation to see how well it could compete with KiCad. Weird thing about the LCDs not syncing... all the LCDs I have that are 1280x1024 or greater work. The problem is that sometimes the default resolution also has a sync rate of a few hz higher than some LCDs can handle, most of my LCDs are older higher end models (1600x1200 etc...) so also happen to support those rates. You can get most commodity LCDs to sync by choosing a display mode via serial port that plays nice with standard VGA resolutions and rates.
