I incorrectly stated there was no problem on one of my Debian machines with video adapter
Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c).
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000004
[Tue Dec 4 12:30:21 2018] *pdpt = 0000000036555001 *pde = 0000000000000000
[Tue Dec 4 12:30:21 2018] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[Tue Dec 4 12:30:21 2018] CPU: 0 PID: 316 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 4.18.0-3-686-pae #1 Debian 4.18.20-2
[Tue Dec 4 12:30:21 2018] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Inspiron 1520 /0KY767, BIOS A03 08/16/2007
[Tue Dec 4 12:30:21 2018] EIP: gen4_render_ring_flush+0x52/0x100 [i915]