Bug#979276: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Server fails to start: "Illegal instruction"

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> 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