> My Thinkpad X30 uses Debian testing and after a recentish update (a couple > months ago) the X server doesn't want to start any more. > > As you can see in the Xorg.0.log below, it fails with an "Illegal > instruction". > This machine is admittedly old, so I suspect it might have to do with the > code using instructions not supported by the processor (Pentium III M), > but AFAIK this *should* work, so I think it's a bug.
I just tried `dpkg --purge xsrver-xorg-video-intel` to se if using another driver would circumvent the problm but that just makes me bump into another problem; the modesetting driver fails with: (EE) modest(0): Failed to initialize glamor at ScreenInit() time. -- Stefan