Hallo Benny!

 BP> not this one ?

The most recent one I was looking at is 18.1.5 and requires python2 as well at
least one python module; Mako.  I'll have to check gentoo's configuration to
see if there is somewhere there that disables the need for python when building
 mesa.

 BP> python free here

See above.  I still have doubts.

 BP> i have used links in framebuffered graphics mode on a quad p2 
 BP> it worked, not slow at all, and did not need any reboots after
 BP> using it

I've done that too but on a dual p3 with a matrox g200.  It worked fantastic. 
It even had a TV capture card and I could watch TV on one console and still
have console switching so that I could have other things going on different
tty's without any interference from the others including the TV tty.  Later on
I added a second monitor just for graphical output and kept the main monitor
for the good stuff, such as compiling and other text based operations.  That
was the ideal setup.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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