Bug#787144: VESA(0): Cannot read int vect

[Unit 193 <unit193@ubuntu.com>]

Package: xserver-xorg-core
Version: 2:1.17.1-2
Severity: normal
Forwarded: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89353

Dear Maintainer,

Trying to boot Debian in virtualbox or qemu with vesa results in xorg bailing out.

The upstream fix is: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/patch/?id=0a78b599b34cc8b5fe6fe82f90e90234e8ab7a56

And there is a downstream bug (and fix): https://launchpad.net/bugs/1433198

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages xserver-xorg-core depends on:
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.127
pn  libaudit0               <none>
ii  libc6                   2.19-18
ii  libdrm2                 2.4.60-3
pn  libgcrypt11             <none>
ii  libpciaccess0           0.13.3-1
ii  libpixman-1-0           0.32.6-3
ii  libselinux1             2.3-2
pn  libudev0                <none>
ii  libxau6                 1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxdmcp6               1:1.1.2-1
pn  libxfont1               <none>
ii  udev                    215-18
pn  xserver-common          <none>

Versions of packages xserver-xorg-core recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri  10.5.5-1

Versions of packages xserver-xorg-core suggests:
pn  xfonts-100dpi | xfonts-75dpi  <none>
pn  xfonts-scalable               <none>