You are a life saver.
I have an old PC which haven't been used for like 10 years, and it's birth is 1999.
I wanted to test if it still work and it did, even with newest Debian 9.1.
However, Mesa has droped 3D support for many old cards including mine 'Creative 3D Blaster Savage 4 32mb - AGP' with Mesa 8.
So, the only way to resurrect an accelleration on this PC was with a system that had Mesa 7.11 or earlier, and my system of choice become Mint 12. However, after installation, I saw issues with repositories, couldn't install anything, sad thing.
And now I found your description of how to fix it, thank you very much!!
Mate is too heavy, but now I can install 'Awesome', JWM or LXDE :)
You are a life saver.
I have an old PC which haven't been used for like 10 years, and it's birth is 1999.
I wanted to test if it still work and it did, even with newest Debian 9.1.
However, Mesa has droped 3D support for many old cards including mine 'Creative 3D Blaster Savage 4 32mb - AGP' with Mesa 8.
So, the only way to resurrect an accelleration on this PC was with a system that had Mesa 7.11 or earlier, and my system of choice become Mint 12. However, after installation, I saw issues with repositories, couldn't install anything, sad thing.
And now I found your description of how to fix it, thank you very much!!
Mate is too heavy, but now I can install 'Awesome', JWM or LXDE :)